| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
| Authors: | W. Bogdanowicz, Owen R. D. |
| Journal: | Z. zool. Syst. Evolut.-forsch. |
| Volume: | 30 |
| Pagination: | 142-160 |
| Date Published: | 1992 |
| Keywords: | Africa, Asia, Chiroptera, evolution, Fledermäuse, Mammalia, morphology, phylogeny, Rhinolophidae, Rhinolophus, speciation, species richness, systematics, taxonomy, zoogeography |
| Abstract: | The 35 mensural traits of 62 species from the family Rhinolophidae were analyzed by the maximum likelihood method using data matrices after size-free and common-part-removed transformations. Of several groups of species recognized by most earlier researchers only a few are well defined and supported phylogenetically. The majority, like the philippinensis group of TATE (1943), for example, do not represent natural assemblages. The results suggest south-east Asia as a centre of origin for the family. The extreme morphological similarity among horseshoe bats appears to reflect the monophyly of the genus Rhinolophus. |