What is "hipposideros"

Hipposideros is one of the most diverse genera of bats, with more than 70 species . They are collectively called roundleaf bats after the shape of their nasal ornament. It is the type genus of the family Hipposideridae.

Species included in this genus are:

• Aba roundleaf bat, H. abae
• Great roundleaf bat, H. armiger
• Dusky leaf-nosed bat or dusky roundleaf bat, H. ater
• Benito roundleaf bat, H. beatus
• Boeadi’s roundleaf bat, H. boeadii
• Bicolored roundleaf bat, H. bicolor
• Short-headed roundleaf bat, H. breviceps
• Sundevall's roundleaf bat, H. caffer
• Spurred roundleaf bat, H. calcaratus
• Greater roundleaf bat, H. camerunensis
• Sulawesi roundleaf bat, H. celebensis
• Fawn leaf-nosed bat or fawn roundleaf bat, H. cervinus
• Ashy roundleaf bat, H. cineraceus
• Commerson's leaf-nosed bat, H. commersoni
• Large Mindanao roundleaf bat, H. coronatus
• Telefomin roundleaf bat, H. corynophyllus
• Cox's roundleaf bat, H. coxi
• Timor roundleaf bat, H. crumeniferus
• Hipposideros cryptovalorona
• Short-tailed roundleaf bat, H. curtus
• Cyclops roundleaf bat, H. cyclops
• Makira roundleaf bat, H. demissus
• Diadem roundleaf bat, H. diadema
• Fierce roundleaf bat, H. dinops
• Borneo roundleaf bat, H. doriae
• Khajuria's leaf-nosed bat, H. durgadasi
• Dayak roundleaf bat, H. dyacorum
• Hill's roundleaf bat, H. edwardshilli
• Hipposideros fasensis
• Sooty roundleaf bat, H. fuliginosus
• Fulvus roundleaf bat, H. fulvus
• Cantor's roundleaf bat, H. galeritus
• Giant roundleaf bat, H. gigas
• Grand roundleaf bat, H. grandis
• Griffin's leaf-nosed bat, H. griffini
• Thailand roundleaf bat, H. halophyllus
• Kolar leaf-nosed bat, H. hypophyllus
• Crested roundleaf bat, H. inexpectatus
• Arnhem leaf-nosed bat, H. inornatus
• Jones's roundleaf bat, H. jonesi
• Phou Khao Khouay leaf-nosed bat, H. khaokhouayensis
• Khasian leaf-nosed bat, H. khasiana
• Lamotte's roundleaf bat, H. lamottei
• Indian roundleaf bat, H. lankadiva
• Intermediate roundleaf bat, H. larvatus
• Large Asian roundleaf bat, H. lekaguli
• Shield-faced roundleaf bat, 'H. lylei
• Big-eared roundleaf bat, H. macrobullatus
• Maduran leaf-nosed bat, H. madurae
• Maggie Taylor's roundleaf bat, H. maggietaylorae
• Aellen's roundleaf bat, H. marisae
• Ethiopian large-eared roundleaf bat, H. megalotis
• Fly River roundleaf bat, H. muscinus
• Malayan roundleaf bat, H. nequam
• Philippine forest roundleaf bat, H. obscurus
• Orbiculus leaf-nosed bat, H. orbiculus
• Biak roundleaf bat, H. papua
• Hipposideros parnabyi
• Peleng leaf-nosed bat, H. pelingensis
• Pomona roundleaf bat, H. pomona
• Pratt's roundleaf bat, H. pratti
• Philippine pygmy roundleaf bat, H. pygmaeus
• Ridley's leaf-nosed bat, H. ridleyi
• Laotian leaf-nosed bat, H. rotalis
• Noack's roundleaf bat, H. ruber
• Hipposideros scutinares
• Semon's roundleaf bat, H. semoni
• Sorensen's leaf-nosed bat, H. sorenseni
• Schneider's leaf-nosed bat, H. speoris
• Northern leaf-nosed bat or narrow-eared roundleaf bat, H. stenotis
• Sumba roundleaf bat or Sumban leaf-nosed bat, H. sumbae
• Hipposideros tephrus
• Saõ Tomé leaf-nosed bat, H. thomensis
• Lesser great leaf-nosed bat, H. turpis
• Striped leaf-nosed bat, H. vittatus
• Wollaston's roundleaf bat, H. wollastoni