Osmania University researchers discover Sri Lankan endemic bat species

Their unending fascination for bats has helped the Osmania University scientists discover a new species of bat in Sri Lanka.

An international researchers’ team led by Dr. Bhargavi Srinivasulu from the OU identified a new species of



leaf-nosed bat, named Hipposideros srilankaensis, which is endemic to Sri Lanka. This discovery, along with the taxonomic revision of the South Asian allies of Hipposideros galeritus, has been published in the international taxonomy journal Zootaxa.