Order Chiroptera Author Karl F. Koopman text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 137 241 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353060 54c9783b-6624-4034-96d9-d09afe43b319 1-56098-217-9 7353060 Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber, 1774) . Die Säugethiere, 1:174 , pl. 62. TYPE LOCALITY: France . DISTRIBUTION: S England to Caucasus Mtns south to Morocco and Tunesia (but not Egypt ) through Iran and Himalayas to China and Japan ; adjacent small islands. SYNONYMS: brevitarsus, colchicus, creticum, equinus, fudisanus, germanicus, hippocrepis, homodorensis, homorodalmasiensis, insulanus, irani, italicus, korai, kosidanus, martinoi, mikadoi, nippon , norikuranus, obscurus , ogasimanus, proximus, quelpartis, regulus , rubiginosus, typicus, tragatus , ungula, unihastatus. COMMENTS: Revised by Strelkov et al. (1978) .