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Be informed about news on Rhinolophus.net subscribe by sending your email address. News (mostly in original language) I / 21 March 2003 by Mauro Mucedda Lanza B., Mucedda M. On the orange Sardinian Rhinolophus mehelyi Matschie 1901 (Mammalia Chiroptera Rhinolophidae). Boll. Mus. reg. Sci. nat. Torino, 19, 2: 427-432.
In Sardinia it has been observed that the fur of some specimens of Rhinolophus mehelyi is uniformously or nearly uniformously reddish-brown to orange or orange-red instead of grey-brown dorsally and whitish ventrally; these animals correspond, as in other Oriental and Afrotropical Rhinolophus, to those individuals that change their colouration from brown to orange during the coat ageing process occurring between one moult and the following one. Up to now such colour phases of Mehely's horseshoe bat have not been observed in other areas. B / 21 February 2003 by Grégory Motte Motte, G | |
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