Species profile—Rhinonicteris aurantia (orange leaf-nosed bat)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Hipposideridae (leafnosed-bats) → Rhinonicteris aurantia (orange leaf-nosed bat)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Hipposideridae (leafnosed-bats)
- Scientific name
- Rhinonicteris aurantia (Gray, 1845)
- Common name
- orange leaf-nosed bat
- Type reference
- Gray, J.E. (1845) Description of some new Australian animals. pp 405-411 pls 1-3 in Eyre, (1845). Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1; sent by the colonists of South Australia, with the sanction and support of the Government: including an account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans. London: T. and W. Boone Vol. 1.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 992
- Synonym(s)
- Rhinonicteris aurantius
Rhinonycteris aurantius
Rhinonycteris aurantia
Rhinolophus aurantius - Alternate name(s)
- golden horseshoe-bat
orange diamond-faced bat
orange horseshoe-bat
golden horseshoe bat
golden horse-shoe bat
orange horseshoe bat
orange horse-shoe bat - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Vulnerable
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Map
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Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=992.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
