What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Cyclops Leaf-nosed Bat been recorded?

Doryrhina cyclops occurrence evidence comes from 247 records in 15 countries and territories, from 1899 to 2024. Most records come from Côte d'Ivoire.

MammaliaChiropteraHipposideridaeDoryrhina

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

247 records across 15 countries and territories, 1899–2024.

Doryrhina cyclops · GBIF taxon key 10744489

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-22. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: January.

11 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

JFMAMJJASOND

Peak month: January. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18992024

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Cyclops Leaf-nosed Bat has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Cyclops Leaf-nosed Bat. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Côte d'Ivoire 67
Ghana 50
Uganda 44
Cameroon 33
DR Congo 19
Central African Republic 7
Togo 5
Burundi 3
Benin 3
Gabon 3
Kenya 3
Sudan 3
Sierra Leone 3
Tanzania 3
Equatorial Guinea 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.