Hipposideridae

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Hipposideridae
Temporal range: Eocene to present
Commerson's leaf-nosed bat
(Hipposideros commersoni)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Superfamily: Rhinolophoidea
Family: Hipposideridae
Lydekker, 1891
Type genus
Hipposideros
Gray, 1831
Genera

See text

Synonyms

The Hipposideridae are a

Rhinolophidae, it is now more generally classified as its own family.[1] Nevertheless, it is most closely related to Rhinolophidae within the suborder Yinpterochiroptera.[2]

Taxonomy

The Hipposideridae contain 10 living genera and more than 70 species, mostly in the widespread genus

Cloeotis,[7] synonymised in a 2014 revision (Foley, et al.) that elevated the family Rhinonycteridae.[8] The Hipposideridae have many different families, previously confused to be the same for their similar appearance. The Hipposideridae fulvus is very similar to the Hipposideridae Pomona, which were a part of the same family in the past. The macrobullatus, considered to be a subspecies of the Hipposideridae are also part of a different family. Among the Hipposideridae species, there is an increased amount of mitochondrial differentation, possibly leading to these subspecies being intermixed and confused as one.[9][10][11]

Genera

The genera included in Hipposideridae are:[12]

Living

  • Anthops (one species; Solomon Islands and Bougainville Island
    )
  • Asellia (four species; Africa and southwestern Asia; Miocene fossils from Europe)
  • Aselliscus (three species; southeastern Asia and Melanesia)
  • Coelops (at least two species; southeastern Asia; Miocene fossils from Africa)
  • Doryrhina (two species, Africa)
  • Hipposideros (more than sixty species; Africa, southern Eurasia, and Australasia; oldest fossils from the Eocene of Europe; includes Pseudorhinolophus, sometimes considered a separate genus)
  • Macronycteris (five species, Africa and Madagascar)

(Note that genus Paracoelops was previously listed for Vietnam is now a synonym of Hipposideros pomona)

Extinct

List of species

Hipposideros lankadiva in Sri Lanka
Pseudorhinolophus antiquus skull and lower jaw at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Colony of Hipposideros lankadiva (or perhaps Hipposideros speori) in a cave in Sri Lanka

Notes

  1. ^ This name technically has priority over Hipposiderinae Lydekker, 1891, and some have consequently used "Rhinonycteridae" or "Rhinonycterinae" for this (sub)family; however, Hipposideridae/inae has been in common use since 1907 and is currently retained pending action by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Simmons, 2005, p. 365
  2. ^ Hutcheon and Kirsch, 2006
  3. ^ Simmons, 2005, pp. 365–379
  4. ^ McKenna and Bell, 1997, p. 306
  5. ^ McKenna and Bell, 1997, pp. 306–307
  6. ^ Hand and Kirsch, 2003, table 3
  7. ^ Benda and Vallo, 2009, p. 33
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  12. ^ Simmons, 2005, pp. 365–379; McKenna and Bell, 1997, pp. 306–307; other sources cited for specific genera
  13. ^ Hand and Kirsch, 2003
  14. ^ a b c Archer et al., 2006, p. 7
  15. ^ Ziegler, 2000, p. 652; Hand and Kirsch, 2003, table 3; cf. McKenna and Bell, 1997, p. 305 (excluded from Rhinonycterinae)
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