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the web of life in southern Africa

Family: Rhinolophidae (horseshoe bats, trident and leaf-nosed bats)

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Species indigenous to southern Africa

Subfamily: Hipposiderinae (trident and leaf-nosed bats)

 
 

Cloeotis percivali (Short-eared trident bat)

 
 

Hipposideros caffer (Sundevall's roundleaf bat)

 

Hipposideros commersoni (Commerson's roundleaf bat)

 

Triaenops persicus (Persian trident bat)

 

Subfamily: Rhinolophinae (horseshoe bats)

 
 

Rhinolophus hildebrandtii (Hildebrandt's horseshoe bat)

 
 

Rhinolophus fumigatus (Rüppell's horseshoe bat)

 
 

Rhinolophus clivosus (Geoffroy's horseshoe bat)

 
 

Rhinolophus darlingi (Darling's horseshoe bat)

 
 

Rhinolophus landeri (Lander's horseshoe bat)

 
 

Rhinolophus blasii (Blasius's horseshoe bat)

 
 

Rhinolophus capensis (Cape horseshoe bat)

 
 

Rhinolophus simulator (Bushveld horseshoe bat)

 
 

Rhinolophus denti (Dent's horseshoe bat)

 
 

Rhinolophus swinnyi (Swinny's horseshoe bat)