A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country Author Monadjem, Ara All Out Africa Research Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Swaziland, Private Bag 4, Kwaluseni, Swaziland ara@uniswacc.uniswa.sz Author Schoeman, M. Corrie School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, Republic of South Africa Author Reside, April All Out Africa, P. O. Box 153, Lobamba, Swaziland Author P Io, Dorothea V. Département d’Ecologie et Evolution, Université de Lausanne, Biophore 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland Author Stoffberg, Samantha Evolutionary Genomics Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 1, Matieland, Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa Author Bayliss, Julian Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust (MMCT), P. O. Box 139, Mulanje, Malawi & Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Author (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D. AEON - Africa Earth Observatory Network, Departments of Geological Sciences, and Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, Republic of South Africa Author Curran, Michael Institute of Biogeography, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10, CH- 4056, Switzerland Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, HIF C 13, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15, CH- 8093 Zurich, Switzerland Durban Natural Science Museum, P. O. Box 4085, Durban, Republic of South Africa Department of Ecology and Resource Management, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Venda, Private Bag X 5050, Thohoyandou, 0950, Republic of South Africa Corresponding author: E-mail: ara @ uniswacc. uniswa. sz Author Kopp, Mirjam Institute of Biogeography, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10, CH- 4056, Switzerland Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, HIF C 13, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15, CH- 8093 Zurich, Switzerland Durban Natural Science Museum, P. O. Box 4085, Durban, Republic of South Africa Department of Ecology and Resource Management, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Venda, Private Bag X 5050, Thohoyandou, 0950, Republic of South Africa Corresponding author: E-mail: ara @ uniswacc. uniswa. sz Author Taylor, Peter J. Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, HIF C 13, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15, CH- 8093 Zurich, Switzerland 11 Durban Natural Science Museum, P. O. Box 4085, Durban, Republic of South Africa text Acta Chiropterologica 2010 2010-12-01 12 2 371 391 journal article 21491 10.3161/150811010X537963 d8534224-63f8-4837-bff7-f3639a531b3d 1733-5329 3944583 Rhinolophus cf. maendeleo Kock, Csorba and Howell 2000 Two specimens assigned to this recently described species were recorded from Mount Namuli in northern Mozambique . They all had a rounded connecting process, similar to R. clivosus , but the 1st upper premolar was small and situated in the toothrow (unlike R. clivosus ). The skull was slender and narrow in shape with gracile zygomatic arches (and MW greater or equal to ZYW — see Table 2 ), undeveloped sagittal and lambdoid crests, a long rostrum with bulbous anterior narial inflation in relation to posterior inflations (giving concave rostral profile) as described by Kock et al . (2000) ; cranial measurements match closely the values for the holotype and paratype of this species recorded by these authors. However, slight differences between the Mount Namuli male (DM 10833) and the R. maendeleo holotype are present in baculum shape (not shown) and the presence of a bony bar closing the infraorbital foramen (open in holotype and paratype of R. maendeleo but only on the right hand side of one Mount Namuli specimen (DM10833) and on neither side in DM10839). These differences warrant further analyses to determine whether these individuals represent an undescribed species, preferably including molecular comparisons of the Mount Namuli specimens with the holotype and/or paratype . Specimens from Mount Gorongosa and Nyika Plateau of Malawi may also be referable to this species and should be examined (F. P. D. Cotterill, personal communication). Field measurements: FA (adult male) 47.5 (1); FA (adult female) 48.9 (1). Nose-leaf width was 8.7 for the male and 8.3 for the female.