First record of Great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros armiger (Hipposideridae) from Bangladesh Author Aziz, M. Abdul Author Marma, Aung Shew Nu Author Hamza, Ameer Author Rahman, Md. Abdur Author Rahman, Md. Aminur Author Naznin, Sumaiya text Mammalia 2024 2024-05-08 88 5 451 454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2024-0003 journal article 10.1515/mammalia-2024-0003 1864-1547 13914403

Table ̚: Diagnostic morphological characteristics of the Hipposideros armiger captured in cave of the Sadar Upazila subdistrict (Bandarban district, Bangladesh) and closely related species of the genus Hipposideros in South Asia according to Srinivasulu et al. (2010).

External characters	This study	H. armiger	H. speoris	H. larvatus	H. lankadiva
(mm)		(Hodgson, ̚s̒ƽ)	(Schneider, ̚see)	(Horsfield, ̚sz̒)	(Kellart, ̚sƽe)
Forearm length	90.1	85.4–95.0	45.6–54.0	61.2–64.8	75.0–99.0
Head body length	98.3	82.0–105.0	46.0–62.0	74.0–78.0	87.0–106.0
Tail length	49.9	50.0–64.0	20.0–29.0	37.0–44.0	35.0–58.0
Ear length	26.6	26.0–34.0	12.5–19.0	23.0–26.0	19.5–30.0
No. of supplementary	4 (4th much	4 (4th much reduced)	3 (3rd much reduced)	4 (4th much reduced)	4 (4th sometimes
leaflets	reduced)				absent)