Summary ³

Noack's Roundleaf Bat (Hipposideros ruber) is a species of bat in the Hipposideridae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist...

References ⁴

Guillén-Servent, A., Juste B., J., Ibáñez, C., 2000. Variation in the frequency of the echolocation calls of Hipposideros ruber in the Gulf of Guinea: An exploration of the adaptive meaning of the constant frequency value in rhinolophoid CF bats. J. Evol. Biol. 13, 70-80.
Russo, D., Maglio, G., Rainho, A., Meyer, C.F.J., Palmeirim, J.M., 2011. Out of the dark: Diurnal activity in the bat Hipposideros ruber on São Tomé island (West Africa). Mammalian Biol. 76, 701-708.
Vallo, P., Guillén-Servent, A., Benda, P., Pires, D.B., Koubek, P., 2009. Variation of mitochondrial DNA in the Hipposideros caffer complex (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) and its taxonomic implications. Acta Chiropterologica 10, 193-206.

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