Rhinolophus mehelyi Matschie, 1901
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54. Mehely’s Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus mehelyi Matschie, 1901 View in CoL
(IUCN Red List: VU)
Subspecies: R. m. judaicus Andersen & Matschie, 1904.
Distribution:Uncommon; confined to caves in the arid areas around the Euphrates Valley as well as in the mountainous habitats around Aleppo and Damascus ( Fig. 61 View FIGURE 61 ).
Previous records: ar-Raqqa, Qater Maghara and Maadan ( Ebenau 1996), Maadan ( Walter & Ebenau 1997), Halabiyyeh, Jeiroud, and Aleppo ( Benda et al. 2006).
Remarks: Due to clear metric differences in R. mehelyi of the Mediterranean, i.e., between the large-sized European and Maghrebian bats on one side and the small-sized Levantine, Cyrenaican and Egyptian bats on the other, Benda et al. (2006, 2014) suggested to treat the latter group of populations (including the Syrian individuals) as a separate subspecies, R. m. judaicus.
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