Cantor's roundleaf bat

{{Short description|Species of bat}}

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| image = Cantor's Leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros galeritus).jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Srinivasulu, B. |author2=Srinivasulu, C. |date=2019 |title=Hipposideros galeritus |volume=2019 |page=e.T10136A22090092 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T10136A22090092.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| genus = Hipposideros

| species = galeritus

| authority = Cantor, 1846

| synonyms =

| range_map = Cantor's Roundleaf Bat area.png

| range_map_caption = Cantor's Roundleaf Bat range

}}

Cantor's roundleaf bat (Hipposideros galeritus) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is found in Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.

It is named after Theodore Edward Cantor, a 19th-century Danish physician, zoologist, and botanist.{{cite book |last1=Beolens |first1=B. |last2=Watkins |first2=M. |last3=Grayson |first3=M. |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-8018-9533-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-kSmWLc6vYC&pg=PA71 |access-date=7 June 2019 |page=71}}

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