What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Noack's Roundleaf Bat been recorded?

Hipposideros ruber occurrence evidence comes from 1,174 records in 25 countries and territories, from 1910 to 2024. Most records come from Uganda.

Noack's Roundleaf Bat
Noack's Roundleaf Bat — Photo (display-sized rendition): Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
MammaliaChiropteraHipposideridaeHipposideros

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

1,174 records across 25 countries and territories, 1910–2024.

Hipposideros ruber · GBIF taxon key 5218556

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: July.

12 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: July. 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

19102024

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

Where Noack's Roundleaf Bat has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Noack's Roundleaf 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
Uganda 279
Kenya 219
DR Congo 192
Sierra Leone 71
Mozambique 59
São Tomé & Príncipe 54
Nigeria 49
Burkina Faso 45
Togo 35
Ghana 34
Cameroon 25
South Sudan 22
Central African Republic 20
Côte d'Ivoire 15
Sudan 15
Tanzania 15
Liberia 10
Malawi 4
Burundi 3
Angola 2
Niger 2
Benin 1
Ethiopia 1
Equatorial Guinea 1
Rwanda 1

Related animals

Others in the family Hipposideridae.

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Sooty Roundleaf Bat
Sooty Roundleaf Bat
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Saõ Tomé Leaf-nosed Bat
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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.