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CHIROPTERA: RHINOLOPHIDAE
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Greater horseshoe bat
Grand rhinolophe fer a cheval
Gros Hufeisennase
Ferro di Cavallo maggiore
SPECIES ACCOUNTS
Status:
Rhinolophus ferrumequinum - Schreber 1774
D.
N.
S.
H.
EEC World
Stor hesteskonaese
Grote hoetijzerneus
Murciélago grande de herradura
Rhinolophos i megali
DISTRIBUTION
EEC: SW Britain, SE Belgium, France, Luxembourg, S Germany,
Italy, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Greece. Now probably extinct in
Netherlands where it was formerly found in the South Limburg
Province (Glas, personal communication).
Europe: Found throughout Hungary, Bulgaria, Austria, Switzerland,
Yugoslavia, Albania, Rumania, Spain and Portugal.
Czechoslovakia: Northern boundary of species distribution,
found throughout the year in south Slovakia, especially in the
Slovak Karst, and occasionally in north Slovakia, Moravia and
Bohemia (182).
Poland: Only one known record from the Nietoperzowa cave
near Ojcow in the Krakow-Czestochowa Uppland (1962)
(Bogdanowicz, pers. comm., Bogdanowicz & Ruprecht, pers.
comm., 114).
Rumania: Found in limestone caves in the Rumanian Dobrogea
adjacent to the Black Sea (43).
World: Occurs in the entire southern Palaearctic from Britain to Japan
with the northern boundary through S England, central
Germany, Crimea, Caucasus, Kopet Dag, Kirgizia, S Korea,
Hokkaido and Honshu. The southern boundary includes Morocco,
Algeria and Tunisia, Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan and
through Himalayas to Yunnan.