🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Noack's Roundleaf Bat live?

Hipposideros ruber has 2,147 records in 31 countries and territories, from 1892 to 2024. Most records come from DR Congo.

AnimaliaChordataMammaliaChiropteraHipposideridaeHipposideros

When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. 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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
DR Congo 366
Uganda 304
Kenya 257
São Tomé & Príncipe 231
Cameroon 182
Central African Republic 133
Sierra Leone 78
Côte d'Ivoire 77
Nigeria 62
Mozambique 59
Ghana 57
Burkina Faso 45
Equatorial Guinea 38
Togo 37
Senegal 35
Tanzania 35
Guinea 26
Liberia 26
Burundi 24
South Sudan 22
Sudan 15
Rwanda 9
Malawi 6
Zimbabwe 6
Gabon 4
Angola 3
Niger 3
Zambia 3
Benin 2
Ethiopia 1
Gambia 1

Related animals

Others in the family Hipposideridae.

Sundevall's Roundleaf Bat
3,643 records
Fawn-colored Leaf-nosed Bat
2,729 records
Sooty Roundleaf Bat
1,155 records
Maghreb Leaf-nosed Bat
983 records
Saõ Tomé Leaf-nosed Bat
636 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. 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.