| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1986 |
| Authors: | M. B. Fenton |
| Journal: | J. Zool. (Lond.) |
| Volume: | 210 |
| Pagination: | 347-353 |
| Date Published: | 1986 |
| Keywords: | behaviour, Chiroptera, echolocation, Fledermäuse, Hipposideridae, Hipposideros ruber, Mammalia, sibling species, Southern Africa, sympatric, systematics, taxonomy, Zimbabwe |
| Abstract: | The results of this study of morphological variation and variation in echolocation calls indicate that only specimens with narrow lateral nasal inflations (=Hipposideros caffer) have been reported from Zimbabwe to date. In both Zambia and Mocambique, single localities yielded both specimens with narrow or wide lateral nasal inflations (nominally, H. caffer and H. ruber, respectively). There are significant differences in echolocation calls between one site in Zimbabwe and another near the Zimbabwe-South Africa border that are not paralleled by significant morphological differences. |