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Remainder of the African-Palearctic species groups ( Zandm , euryale , ferrumequinum , and maclaudi groups) along with the Chinese A xrnanzhongguoensis seem to form a large clade, although phylogenetic relationships in this clade have yet to be resolved. Rhinolophus capensis seems to be sister to A swinnyi , with which it is partially sympatric. Monotypic.; [batnames2022]  capensis species group. See Taylor (2000a) for distribution map.; [batnames2023]  capensis species group. See Taylor (2000a) for distribution map.; [batnames2025_1.7] capensisspecies group. See Taylor (2000a) for distribution map.						auritus.			auritus			capensis 	capensis - auritus	capensis, auritus		capensis 	capensis - auritus	capensis, auritus	capensis, auritus	capensis 	capensis - auritus	capensis H. Lichtenstein, 1823|auritus Sundevall, 1860		Corbet, G.B. and Hill, J.E. 1980. A World List of Mammalian Species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp.	Cape horseshoe bat	Zambia, Rhodesia, S Africa	Honacki, J.H., Kinman, K.E. and Koeppl, J.W. 1982. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Allen Press, Lawrence, 694 pp.	Rhinolophus capensis	South Africa, Cape Province, Cape of Good Hope.	Lichtenstein	1823	Verz. Doblet. Mus. Univ. Berlin, p. 4.	Distribution: Confined to southern Africa from Zimbabwe and Mozam bique to the Cape Province.		Corbet, G.B. and Hill, J.E. 1991. A World List of Mammalian Species. Third edition. Oxford University Press, London, 243 pp. ISBN 0-19-854017-5	Cape horseshoe bat	S Africa	Koopman, K.F. 1993. Order Chiroptera. Pp. 137–242 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1206 pp.	Lichtenstein	1823	Verz. Doblet. Mus. Univ. Berlin, p. 4.		Cape Prov., Natal (South Africa); Zimbabwe; Mozambique. Occurence outside Cape Prov. is doubtful; records from Zambia and Malawi are definitely erroneous.	South Africa, Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope.		LICHTENSTEIN	1823	Second phalanx of third digit rela tively elongate. Anterior upper premolar greatly reduced, though in toothrow. Size medium (fore arm length, 47-52 mm).	Distribution: Confined to southern Africa from Zimbabwe and Mozam bique to the Cape Province.	No subspecies.		54	species	R. capensis	LICHTENSTEIN	1823	Rhinolophus	genus	Rhinolophus capensis				Second phalanx of third digit rela tively elongate. Anterior upper premolar greatly reduced, though in toothrow. Size medium (fore arm length, 47-52 mm).	No subspecies.		16. R. capensis LICHTENSTEIN 1823 [ferrumequi num group].	16	NA			Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. (Available from Johns Hopkins University Press, 1-800-537-5487 or (410) 516-6900, or at http://www.press.jhu.edu).	CHIROPTERA	Rhinolophidae			Rhinolophus capensis	Rhinolophus		capensis	Lichtenstein		1823		Verz. Doblet. Mus. Univ. Berlin			4		Cape Horseshoe Bat	South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope.	South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique. Occurence outside South Africa is doubtful; records from Zambia and Malawi are definitely erroneous (Koopman, 1993).	IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Vulnerable.	auritus Sundevall, 1860.	capensis species group. See Taylor (2000a) for distribution map.	885887A2FFD28A34FF19F24FF859DED2	Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions	978-84-16728-19-0	hbmw_9_Rhinolophidae.pdf.imf	hash://md5/7461ffdaffcf8a29ffccffa1ff85d963	284	zip:hash://sha256/ec5fd314a06aba1a7b0b72f23e54ac625ae272bd98f82f1d01f4c09627d9e8e0!/treatments-xml-main/data/88/58/87/885887A2FFCA8A2FF8ABF666FCA4D52A.xml	Rhinolophus capensis	Rhinolophidae	Rhinolophus	capensis	Lichtenstein	1823	Rhinolophe du Cap @fr | Kap-Hufeisennase @de | Herradura de El Cabo @es | Southern Africa Horseshoe Bat @en	Rhinolophus capensis Lichtenstein, 1823 , Cape of Good Hope , Western Cape Province , South Africa . Rhinolophus capensis is in the capensis species group, which might also include A blasii based on genetic data, but additional research is needed. Remainder of the African-Palearctic species groups ( Zandm , euryale , ferrumequinum , and maclaudi groups) along with the Chinese A xrnanzhongguoensis seem to form a large clade, although phylogenetic relationships in this clade have yet to be resolved. Rhinolophus capensis seems to be sister to A swinnyi , with which it is partially sympatric. Monotypic.	South Africa in coastal Northern, Western , and Eastern Cape provinces. Possibly enters coastal SW Namibia , although this has yet to be confirmed; all other non-South African records are erroneous.	Head-body c . 56 - 66 mm , tail 24-32 mm , ear 21-25 mm , forearm 47-51 mm ; weight 9-14- 6 g . Pelage is pale to medium brown dorsally (individual hairs are pale gray, beige, or cream, with brown tips) or bright red in orange morph; venter is paler, sometimes more grayish. Males lack axillary tufts. Ears are medium in length (46-52% offorearm length). Noseleafhas hastate lancet, with blundy pointed tip; sella is naked, with parallel or slighdy concave sides and rounded top; connecting process is rounded, sometimes nearly triangular with rounded top, and is higher than sella; horseshoe is narrow at 7-3—8- 1 mm and does not cover entire muzzle; lateral leaflets are present but poorly developed; and anterior emargination is deep. Lower lip has one well-defined groove. Wings and uropatagium are brown. Skull is rather robust, with broad zygomatic arches and zygomatic width larger than mastoid width; nasal swellings are medium in relative height; frontal depression is shallow, and supraorbital ridges are weak; sagittal crest is well developed anteriorly but absent posteriorly; and interpterygoid groove is distinct. P2 is small to medium-sized and usually slightly displaced labially, sometimes nearly completely displaced, but C 1 and P4 never touch as a result, being well separated; P3 is small and partly or completely displaced labially. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 58 and FNa = 60.	Primarily savanna, montane forest, coastal forest, and fynbos (shrubland) habitats. Roosts of Cape Horseshoe Bats occur in coastal and sea caves and dark lofts and mine shafts; houses are typically avoided.	Cape Horseshoe Bats seem to forage by slowly flying through vegetation (slow aerial clutter foraging) and gleaning prey off of the ground or foliage. They might feed by perch-hunting, in which they ambush prey by perching on vegetation and waiting for prey to pass by. Large proportions of diets consist of lepidopterans and coleopterans, and neuropterans, hemipterans, and dipterans make up smaller amounts of diets. Cape Horseshoe Bats eat smaller prey than sympatric Geoffroy’s Horseshoe Bats ( clivosus ), probably to avoid competition.	The Cape Horseshoe Bat is seasonally monoestrous. Spermatogenesis occurs in October—May, and sperm is stored in epididymis through winter, which is rather unusual for species of Rhinolophus . Copulation takes place when winter ends in August-September, in contrast to most other hibernating species of Rhinolophus that mate before winter with sperm stored in females’ reproductive tracts. Although females are in estrus or submaximal estrus in May, there are cornified epithelial cells blocking the vagina that prevent copulation through hibernation in winter. Births are reported in summer (November-December) after 3-4 months of gestation. Litter size is one. Lactation has been recorded in December-January . Young cling to their mothers during the day but are left in roosts when mothers leave to forage at night. Male testes are active at 11-12 months old, although their first mating does not occur until their second year; females typically start breeding in their second year.	Cape Horseshoe Bats are nocturnal. Days are spent in roosts that are left after dark. Roosts occur in coastal and sea caves and dark lofts and mine shafts; houses are typically avoided. According to J. T. McDonald and colleagues in 1990, they are most active during the first two hours after sunset when they forage. Bouts of foraging continue throughout the night, with breaks in between to return to roosts. In a recent study by A. J. Thomas and D. S. Jacobs in 2013, moth-eating bats—including the Cape Horseshoe Bat and the Egyptian Slit-faced Bat { Nycteris thebaica ) —emerged earlier than bats that fed on dipterans. Call shape is FM/CF/FM, with F component of c .75-90 kHz recorded throughout their distribution, ranging from 75-7 kHz in the western part of the distribution to 86-5 kHz in the eastern end—a gradient that seems to be linked to annual rainfall. Pulse durations are 28-1-52-7 milliseconds. Terminal FM sweep of call becomes longer and wider in bandwidth when flying with conspecifics vs. flying alone. Other changes in calls of Cape Horseshoe Bat have been reported when flying with Natal Long-fingered Bats ( Miniopterus natalensis) and Geofffoy’s Horseshoe Bats. Cape Horseshoe Bats can readily distinguish between calls of conspecifics and those of Geoffroy’s Horseshoe Bats.	Although the Cape Horseshoe Bat is primarily sedentary, small-scale movements of 10 km have been reported. Reasons for these movements are uncertain, but they might be to escape extreme conditions in winter. Cape Horseshoe Bats hibernate through winter on occasion, but they do not enter a deep torpor, as does the Geoffroy’s Horseshoe Bat . Cape Horseshoe Bats roost in large colonies that rarely have more than 1000 individuals. Males and females roost together, and individuals roost in clusters of multiple individuals that do not generally make contact with one another. Cave roosts are shared relatively often with Geoffroy’s Horseshoe Bats and Natal Long-fingered Bats.	Classified as Least Concern on 77ze IUCN Red List. The Cape Horseshoe Bat is considered common throughout its distribution and does not seem to have any major conservation threats. It might be declining in some areas due to roost disturbance and habitat loss from agricultural expansion.	ACR (2018) | Ansell (1986) | Bernard (1984,1985,1986a, 1986b, 2013a) | Brown & Bernard (1994) | Csorba et al. (2003) | Cumming & Bernard (1997) | Erasmus & Rautenbach (1984) | Fawcett et al. (201'5) | Jacobs & Monadjem (2017) | Jacobs et a /. (2007) | McDonald et a /. (1990a, 1990b) | Monadjem , Taylor et a/. (2010) | Odendaal & Jacobs (2011) | Stoffberg (2008) | Stoffberg et al. (2010) | Taylor, Macdonald et al. (2018) | Thomas & Jacobs (2013) | Zhou Zhaomin et al. (2009)	https://zenodo.org/record/3749928/files/figure.png	9 . Cape Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus capensis French: Rhinolophe du Cap I German: Kap-Hufeisennase I Spanish: Herradura de El Cabo Other common names: Southern Africa Horseshoe Bat Taxonomy. Rhinolophus capensis Lichtenstein, 1823 , Cape of Good Hope , Western Cape Province , South Africa . Rhinolophus capensis is in the capensis species group, which might also include A blasii based on genetic data, but additional research is needed. Remainder of the African-Palearctic species groups ( Zandm , euryale , ferrumequinum , and maclaudi groups) along with the Chinese A xrnanzhongguoensis seem to form a large clade, although phylogenetic relationships in this clade have yet to be resolved. Rhinolophus capensis seems to be sister to A swinnyi , with which it is partially sympatric. Monotypic. Distribution. South Africa in coastal Northern, Western , and Eastern Cape provinces. Possibly enters coastal SW Namibia , although this has yet to be confirmed; all other non-South African records are erroneous. Descriptive notes. Head-body c . 56 - 66 mm , tail 24-32 mm , ear 21-25 mm , forearm 47-51 mm ; weight 9-14- 6 g . Pelage is pale to medium brown dorsally (individual hairs are pale gray, beige, or cream, with brown tips) or bright red in orange morph; venter is paler, sometimes more grayish. Males lack axillary tufts. Ears are medium in length (46-52% offorearm length). Noseleafhas hastate lancet, with blundy pointed tip; sella is naked, with parallel or slighdy concave sides and rounded top; connecting process is rounded, sometimes nearly triangular with rounded top, and is higher than sella; horseshoe is narrow at 7-3—8- 1 mm and does not cover entire muzzle; lateral leaflets are present but poorly developed; and anterior emargination is deep. Lower lip has one well-defined groove. Wings and uropatagium are brown. Skull is rather robust, with broad zygomatic arches and zygomatic width larger than mastoid width; nasal swellings are medium in relative height; frontal depression is shallow, and supraorbital ridges are weak; sagittal crest is well developed anteriorly but absent posteriorly; and interpterygoid groove is distinct. P2 is small to medium-sized and usually slightly displaced labially, sometimes nearly completely displaced, but C 1 and P4 never touch as a result, being well separated; P3 is small and partly or completely displaced labially. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 58 and FNa = 60. Habitat. Primarily savanna, montane forest, coastal forest, and fynbos (shrubland) habitats. Roosts of Cape Horseshoe Bats occur in coastal and sea caves and dark lofts and mine shafts; houses are typically avoided. Food and Feeding. Cape Horseshoe Bats seem to forage by slowly flying through vegetation (slow aerial clutter foraging) and gleaning prey off of the ground or foliage. They might feed by perch-hunting, in which they ambush prey by perching on vegetation and waiting for prey to pass by. Large proportions of diets consist of lepidopterans and coleopterans, and neuropterans, hemipterans, and dipterans make up smaller amounts of diets. Cape Horseshoe Bats eat smaller prey than sympatric Geoffroy’s Horseshoe Bats ( clivosus ), probably to avoid competition. Breeding. The Cape Horseshoe Bat is seasonally monoestrous. Spermatogenesis occurs in October—May, and sperm is stored in epididymis through winter, which is rather unusual for species of Rhinolophus . Copulation takes place when winter ends in August-September, in contrast to most other hibernating species of Rhinolophus that mate before winter with sperm stored in females’ reproductive tracts. Although females are in estrus or submaximal estrus in May, there are cornified epithelial cells blocking the vagina that prevent copulation through hibernation in winter. Births are reported in summer (November-December) after 3-4 months of gestation. Litter size is one. Lactation has been recorded in December-January . Young cling to their mothers during the day but are left in roosts when mothers leave to forage at night. Male testes are active at 11-12 months old, although their first mating does not occur until their second year; females typically start breeding in their second year. Activity patterns. Cape Horseshoe Bats are nocturnal. Days are spent in roosts that are left after dark. Roosts occur in coastal and sea caves and dark lofts and mine shafts; houses are typically avoided. According to J. T. McDonald and colleagues in 1990, they are most active during the first two hours after sunset when they forage. Bouts of foraging continue throughout the night, with breaks in between to return to roosts. In a recent study by A. J. Thomas and D. S. Jacobs in 2013, moth-eating bats—including the Cape Horseshoe Bat and the Egyptian Slit-faced Bat { Nycteris thebaica ) —emerged earlier than bats that fed on dipterans. Call shape is FM/CF/FM, with F component of c .75-90 kHz recorded throughout their distribution, ranging from 75-7 kHz in the western part of the distribution to 86-5 kHz in the eastern end—a gradient that seems to be linked to annual rainfall. Pulse durations are 28-1-52-7 milliseconds. Terminal FM sweep of call becomes longer and wider in bandwidth when flying with conspecifics vs. flying alone. Other changes in calls of Cape Horseshoe Bat have been reported when flying with Natal Long-fingered Bats ( Miniopterus natalensis) and Geofffoy’s Horseshoe Bats. Cape Horseshoe Bats can readily distinguish between calls of conspecifics and those of Geoffroy’s Horseshoe Bats. Movements, Home range and Social organization. Although the Cape Horseshoe Bat is primarily sedentary, small-scale movements of 10 km have been reported. Reasons for these movements are uncertain, but they might be to escape extreme conditions in winter. Cape Horseshoe Bats hibernate through winter on occasion, but they do not enter a deep torpor, as does the Geoffroy’s Horseshoe Bat . Cape Horseshoe Bats roost in large colonies that rarely have more than 1000 individuals. Males and females roost together, and individuals roost in clusters of multiple individuals that do not generally make contact with one another. Cave roosts are shared relatively often with Geoffroy’s Horseshoe Bats and Natal Long-fingered Bats. Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on 77ze IUCN Red List. The Cape Horseshoe Bat is considered common throughout its distribution and does not seem to have any major conservation threats. It might be declining in some areas due to roost disturbance and habitat loss from agricultural expansion. Bibliography. ACR (2018), Ansell (1986), Bernard (1984,1985,1986a, 1986b, 2013a), Brown & Bernard (1994), Csorba eta/. (2003), Cumming & Bernard (1997), Erasmus & Rautenbach (1984), Fawcett eta /. (201'5), Jacobs & Monadjem (2017), Jacobs et a /. (2007), McDonald et a /. (1990a, 1990b), Monadjem , Taylor et a/. (2010), Odendaal & Jacobs (2011), Stoffberg (2008), Stoffberg eta/. (2010),Taylor, Macdonald eta /. (2018), Thomas & Jacobs (2013), Zhou Zhaomin eta/. (2009).	Simmons, N.B. and A.L. Cirranello. 2022B. Bat Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic database. Accessed on 10/11/2022.	Rhinolophidae	Rhinolophus capensis	Rhinolophus		capensis	Lichtenstein	1823	0	Verz. Doblet. Mus. Univ. Berlin	p. 4	Cape Horseshoe Bat	 auritus Sundevall, 1860.	South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope.	South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique. Occurence outside South Africa is doubtful; records from Zambia and Malawi are definitely erroneous (Koopman, 1993).	Not listed.	Least Concern	 capensis species group. See Taylor (2000a) for distribution map.	Mammal Diversity Database. (2023). Mammal Diversity Database (Version 1.11) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7830771 released 15 April 2023	Rhinolophus capensis	23	Cape Horseshoe Bat	Southern Africa Horseshoe Bat	Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	CHIROPTERA	PTEROPODIFORMES	NA	NA	RHINOLOPHOIDEA	RHINOLOPHIDAE	NA	NA	Rhinolophus	NA	capensis	H. Lichtenstein	1823	0	Rhinolophus_capensis	Lichtenstein, H. (1823). Verzeichnis der Doubletten des zoologischen Museums der Königlichen Universität zu Berlin. Berlin, 4.	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89675#page/24/mode/1up	ZMB 377 [lectotype]		Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape Province, South Africa.			capensis H. Lichtenstein, 1823|auritus Sundevall, 1860	NA	NA	South Africa|Namibia?	Africa	Afrotropic	LC	0	0	0	Rhinolophus_capensis	0	sciname match	Rhinolophus_capensis	0	IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. https://www.iucnredlist.org. Accessed on [28 September, 2022].	19529	Rhinolophus capensis	ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	CHIROPTERA	RHINOLOPHIDAE	Rhinolophus	capensis	Lichtenstein, 1823		20000000	Rhinolophus capensis	Least Concern		2017	2014-02-22 00:00:00 UTC	3.1	English	<p>An endemic species to South Africa. While declining ;in parts of its range, the species is listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, its known large population (there are many records of this species occurring in high numbers in ; coastal caves), and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category. ;</p>	<p>This bat has been recorded from a range of habitats, but is closely associated with the Fynbos and Succulent Karoo Biomes (Monadjem et al . 2010). Populations roost in suitable coastal and sea caves, and have been recorded from dark lofts, and disused mines (Taylor 2000, Csorba et al . 2003), but apparently avoids houses (Bernard 2013). They often shares caves with R. clivosus and Miniopterus natalensis (Herselman and Norton 1985, Stoffberg 2008). They forage predominantly in the canopy of trees (McDonald et al . 1990b), or in orchards surrounding wetlands and over the wetlands themselves (Sirami et al . 2013). They are clutter foragers, feeding primarily on Coleoptera and Lepidoptera (Jacobs et al . 2007, Monadjem et al . 2010). Small-scale migrations of 10 km have been recorded (Taylor 2000). Sometimes hibernates in winter but torpor not as deep as R. clivsous (R.T.F Bernard pers. obs.).</p><p></p>	<p>No major threats have been identified for this species. It may be declining in parts of its range due to disturbance of cave roosts (often by recreational and tourism activities), and the conversion of suitable foraging habitat to agricultural use. </p>	<p>This species is common throughout its range (Bernard 2013), and is relatively well represented in museums (Monadjem et al . 2010). Skinner and Chimimba (2005) state that 'they are abundant in the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape, where there are many records from coastal caves. It can be found in colonies consisting of thousands of individuals (Herselman and Norton 1985, Taylor 2000, Skinner and Chimimba 2005). For example, there are an estimated 19,000 individuals in De Hoop Guano Cave (McDonald et al . 1990a). ;</p><p></p>	Stable	<p>This South African endemic is mainly restricted to the coastal belt, typically 100-200 km wide (but possibly further inland), of the Northern Cape, Western Cape and the Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa, and occurs from just south of the border of Namibia in the west as far east along the coast as the vicinity of East London (Skinner and Chimimba 2005). It occurs mainly in the South West Cape biotic zone (BZ), but extends marginally into the Karoo, Highveld, Coastal Forest Mosaic and Afromontane-Afroapline BZs (Bernard 2013). We follow Herselman and Norton (1985) and Monadjem et al . (2010) in extending its range to just south of the Orange River on the Namibian border, but it may also occur in southern Namibia (Griffin 1999). As R. capensis is difficult to discern from R. clivosus and R. darling , records north of 32°S may need vetting (Bernard 2013). Similarly, one record from north-east Eastern Cape (Lynch 1989) needs vetting. Its current estimated extent of occurrence is over 400,000 km².</p><p></p>	This species is not traded.	Terrestrial	The species is recorded from more than 10 protected areas including: West Coast National Park; De Hoop Nature Reserve; Garden Route National Park; Langeberg Nature Reserve; Addo Elephant National Park; Great Fish Nature Reserve; Kologha Forest Reserve and Kubusi Indigenous State Forest. While no urgent conservation ;interventions ;are necessary, the species would benefit from further protected area establishment once key roost sites have been identified; and artificial wetlands in agricultural landscapes should be managed for biodiversity by conserving patches of native vegetation around the waterbodies (Sirami et al . 2013). ; ;Further studies are needed into the distribution of this bat it may occur in southern Namibia.	Afrotropical		FALSE	FALSE	Global	Simmons, N. B., & Cirranello, A. L. (2023). Batnames.org Species List Version 1.4 (1.4). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8136157 	Rhinolophidae	Rhinolophus		capensis	Lichtenstein	1823	0	Verz. Doblet. Mus. Univ. Berlin	p. 4	Cape Horseshoe Bat	 auritus Sundevall, 1860.	South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope.	South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique. Occurence outside South Africa is doubtful; records from Zambia and Malawi are definitely erroneous (Koopman, 1993).	Not listed.	Least Concern	 capensis species group. See Taylor (2000a) for distribution map.	Rhinolophus capensis	1004665	23	Cape Horseshoe Bat	Southern Africa Horseshoe Bat	Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	CHIROPTERA	PTEROPODIFORMES	NA	NA	RHINOLOPHOIDEA	Rhinolophidae	NA	NA	Rhinolophus	NA	capensis	H. Lichtenstein	1823	0	Rhinolophus_capensis	Lichtenstein, H. (1823). Verzeichnis der Doubletten des zoologischen Museums der Königlichen Universität zu Berlin. Berlin, 4.	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89675#page/24/mode/1up	ZMB 377 [lectotype]		Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape Province, South Africa.			capensis H. Lichtenstein, 1823|auritus Sundevall, 1860	NA	NA				South Africa|Namibia?	Africa	Afrotropic	LC	0	0	0	Rhinolophus_capensis	0	sciname match	Rhinolophus_capensis	0	Burgin, C. J., Zijlstra, J. S., Becker, M. A., Handika, H., Alston, J. M., Widness, J., Liphardt, S., Huckaby, D. G., and Upham, N. S. (2025). How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge. Journal of Mammalogy in revision: TBD. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.27.640393	Rhinolophus_capensis	1004665	23	Cape Horseshoe Bat	Southern Africa Horseshoe Bat	Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	Chiroptera	Yinpterochiroptera	NA	NA	Rhinolophoidea	Rhinolophidae	NA	NA	Rhinolophus	NA	capensis	H. Lichtenstein	0	Rhinolophus capensis	Lichtenstein, H. 1823. Verzeichniss der Doubletten des zoologischen Museums der Königl. Universität zu Berlin nebst Beschreibung vieler bisher unbekannter Arten von Säugethieren, Vögeln, Amphibien und Fischern. T. Trautwein, Berlin, 118 pp.	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28229314	ZMB 377	lectotype		Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape Province, South Africa.			NA	NA				South Africa|Namibia?	Africa	Afrotropic	LC	0	0	0	Rhinolophus_capensis	0	sciname match	Rhinolophus_capensis	0	Simmons, N. B., & Cirranello, A. L. (2025). Batnames.org Species List Version 1.7 (1.7). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14796586	Rhinolophidae	Rhinolophus		capensis	Lichtenstein	1823	0	Verz. Doblet. Mus. Univ. Berlin	p. 4	Cape Horseshoe Bat	auritus Sundevall, 1860.	South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope.	South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique. Occurence outside South Africa is doubtful; records from Zambia and Malawi are definitely erroneous (Koopman, 1993).	<a href='https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php' target='_blank'>Not Listed</a>	<a href='https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/19529/21980883/' target='_blank'>Least Concern</a>	capensisspecies group. See Taylor (2000a) for distribution map.		Mammal Diversity Database. (2025). Mammal Diversity Database (Version 2.2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15007505	NA	Rhinolophus capensis; Rhinolophus capensis; Rhinolophus capensis; Rhinolophus capensis; Rhinolophus capensis; Rhinolophus capensis; auritus; auritus; capensis; auritus; Rhinolophe du Cap; Kap-Hufeisennase; Herradura de El Cabo; Southern Africa Horseshoe Bat; Cape Horseshoe Bat; Southern Africa Horseshoe Bat; Cape Horseshoe Bat; Cape Horseshoe Bat; R. capensis