An international team of scientist, including one of the SEABCRU committee members Dr Pipat Soisook, published results of the study of the population history of Hipposideros armiger, a fairly common cave-dwelling Leaf-nosed bat in the Oriental region, in the latest issue of Journal of

From Vin Dinh Thong Paracoelops megalotis was only known from the original description of the single holotype. Over the past decades, the species was treated as a monotypic genus endemic to Vietnam, and received much attention from bat specialists worldwide. Particularly, it had appea

Congratulations to Vu Dinh and his co-authors on the description of new Hipposideros species from Vietnam. This new cryptic species from the armiger-species group, H. griffini is similar to H. armiger in its external characteristics but appears to have higher echolocation frequencies

As many of us have found, the Hipposideridae can be a complicated, if not irritating family to work with, and the molecular phylogeny from Susan Murray and colleagues just published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution reveals the extent of paraphyly and polyphyly within many curr

The Cambodian bat fauna is one of the least well-known in the region, as is evidenced by the addition of seven new species to the country’s list in a recent publication from Ith Saveng and colleagues.  The authors reviewed specimens collected from around the country over the last 11 y

It is great to report on further new papers relating to the taxonomy of SE Asian bats.  Congratulations to Noor Haliza Hasan and Mohd Tajuddin Abdullah on their paper on woolly bats (Kerivoula) from Malaysia. This is a particularly ‘awkward’ group and they have done us all