Rhinolophus landeri Martin 1838

Rhinolophus landeri Martin, 1838 During this study, this species was recorded from forested habitat in Liberian Nimba at altitudes ranging from 550 m to 1,000 m. Despite its wide distribution (Monadjem et al., 2010 a), this species had not been recorded from Mt Nimba prior to this survey. This species closely resembles R. guineensis but was distinguished from it by its smaller size (forearm and greatest skull lengths were 42.0– 43.9 mm and 18.8–18.9 mm, n = 3). Rhinolophus alcyone is typically far larger in size.
Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Richards, Leigh & Denys, Christiane, 2016, An African bat hotspot: the exceptional importance of Mount Nimba for bat diversity, pp. 359-375 in Acta Chiropterologica 18 (2) on page 366, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.2.005, http://zenodo.org/record/3942481