Hipposideros pratti Thomas 1891

37. Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros pratti French: Phyllorhine de Pratt / German: Pratt-Rundblattnase / Spanish: Hiposidérido de Pratt Other common names: Pratt's Roundleaf Bat Taxonomy. Hipposiderus [sic] pratti Thomas, 1891, “Kia-ting-fu [= Kiatingfu], Western Sze-chuen [= Sichuan], China.” Hipposideros pratti is in the pratti species group. Monotypic. Distribution. C, E & S China (including Hainan I) and N Vietnam; a record from N Myanmar has not been confirmed. Descriptive notes. Head-body 91-110 mm, tail 50-62 mm, ear 33-38 mm, hindfoot 15-22 mm, forearm 79-89 mm. Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bat is a large Hipposideros. It has “shield” (enlarged fleshy lobes, behind posterior noseleaf) as in the Shield-faced Leaf-nosed Bat (77. lylei), but much smaller; in females, in particular, it looks like a ridge rather than a shield. Posterior and anterior noseleaves are similar in width but notjoined. There are two lateral leaflets on each cheek. Pelage is reddish brown, and paler on ventral side. In skull, sagittal is well developed; rostral chambers are somewhat flattened, less inflated than those of the Shield-faced Leaf-nosed Bat and the Shield-nosed Leaf-nosed Bat (77. scutinazKs). P2 is small and slightly extruded from tooth row. Habitat Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bat is a cave-dwelling species. Food and Feeding. Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bat feeds on insects in the understory of primary and disturbed lowland forest. Breeding. Females with young were captured in earlyJuly. Activity patterns. Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bat roosts in caves. Echolocation is a CF/FM type, with a call frequency of the F segment of 58-62 kHz. Movements, Home range and Social organization. Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bats roost in large colonies; a maternity colony may have several hundred individuals. The species has been found in a mixed colony with the larger Great Himalayan Leaf-nosed Bat (77. armiger). Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on 7%e IUCN Red List. Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bat is widespread and locally common in south China. Bibliography. Corbet & Hill (1992), Francis (2008a), Francis & Bates (2008a), Niu Huiling eta/. (2007), Robinson eta/. (2003), Simmons (2005), Smith &XieYan (2008), Zhang Libiao, Jones eta/. (2009).Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Hipposideridae, pp. 227-258 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 240, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.373980