Rediscovery of the critically endangered Hill's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophushilli) and other new records of bat species in Rwanda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For forty years, there has been growing uncertainty about whether Hill's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophushilli) still persists in Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda. Only known from one small area within the National Park, R.hilli is listed as Critically Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), based on its extremely small geographic range and presumed low number of mature individuals. Here, we present and describe bat species occurrence data contributed to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) that we collected as part of a long-term collaborative project to rediscover this lost species. This data paper describes the survey methods and findings resulting from cave roost surveys, capture surveys, and acoustic sampling

SUBMITTER: Flanders J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9848553 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature