Doryrhina cyclops (Temminck 1853)
- Dataset
- Annotated checklist of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Mount Cameroon, southwestern Cameroon
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Chiroptera
- family
- Hipposideridae
- genus
- Doryrhina
- species
- Doryrhina cyclops
description
(Fig. 13, Table 3)
discussion
REMARK. — We use the generic name Doryrhina based on the revision by Foley et al. (2017).
distribution
HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — This species is widely distributed in West and Central Africa, with a few isolated records from East Africa. This species principally inhabits undisturbed tropical rainforest (Happold 1987), including lowland, coastal, montane, swamp and mangrove forests (Fahr 2013 c as Hipposideros cyclops). It has also been recorded in isolated forest patches on the edges of savannah (Decher & Fahr 2005) where it roosts singly, in pairs or in small groups in cavities of hollow standing trees. They have a preference for cavities located high above the ground, and often return to the roost to consume their prey (Happold 1987). Decher & Fahr (2005) mentioned that this species may be threatened by deforestation in some parts of it range.
materials_examined
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 34 specimens (including original data). Mount Cameroon area • 12 specimens; Mubenge - Isongo; 4 ° 05 ’ 00 ” N, 9 ° 00 ’ 00 ” E; 0 m; 3. III. 1938; Martin Eisentraut leg.; SMNS 3451, 3452, 5597 to 5599, ZMB 54912 to 54915, 93802 to 93804 • 3 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂; Malende Swamp area; 4 ° 21 ’ 00 ” N, 9 ° 26 ’ 00 ” E; 50 m; 9. III- 10. III. 1957; Martin Eisentraut leg.; SMNS 6582, 6583, 8163, 8164 • 1 specimen; Malende; 4 ° 21 ’ 00 ” N, 9 ° 26 ’ 00 ” E; 150 m; 10. II. 1957; Martin Eisentraut leg.; ZFMK 1961.0639 • 1 ♂; Mueli; 4 ° 23 ’ 00 ” N, 9 ° 07 ’ 00 ” E; 600 m; 8. XII. 1958; Martin Eisentraut leg.; ZFMK 1961.0640. Other localities of Cameroon • 1 specimen; Mount Kupe; 4 ° 48 ’ 05 ” N, 9 ° 42 ’ 29 ” E. 1078 m; 2. XII. 1966; Martin Eisentraut leg.; ZFMK 1969.0463 • 9 specimens; Bipindi; 3 ° 05 ’ 00 ” N, 10 ° 25 ’ 00 ” E; 184 m; Zenker Georg August leg.; ZMB 67752 to 67769, T 10541. ORIGINAL DATA. — Only a single specimen of Doryrhina cyclops was captured during our field surveys, which was mist-netted over a waterhole in an undisturbed lowland rainforest of Mount Cameroon at an altitude of 630 m a. s. l. (Table 1) Fedden & MacLeod (1986) captured this species only in primary forests on Mount Cameroon, while Eisentraut (1963) captured it only at the lowland rainforest of Mount Cameroon.
vernacular_names
COMMON NAME. — Cyclops Leaf-nosed Bat. French: Phyllorine des Cyclopes.
Name
- Homonyms
- Doryrhina cyclops (Temminck 1853)