Triaenops
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Genus of bats
| Triaenops | |
|---|---|
| Skull of Triaenops menamena | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Rhinonycteridae |
| Genus: | Triaenops Dobson, 1871 |
| Triaenops has a fragmented distribution in Africa, the Middle East, and southern Pakistan. | |
| Distribution of Triaenops (blue—T. afer ; brown—† T. goodmani ; green—T. menamena ; red—T. persicus ; yellow—T. persicus plus T. parvus ) | |
Triaenops is a genus of bat in the family Rhinonycteridae. It is classified in the tribe Triaenopini, along with the closely related genus Paratriaenops and perhaps the poorly known Cloeotis .[1] The species of Paratriaenops, which occur on Madagascar and the Seychelles, were placed in Triaenops until 2009. Triaenops currently contains the following species:[2]
Another species, Triaenops goodmani , was described from subfossil material on Madagascar in 2007, before Paratriaenops was split off, but was not considered in the revision that split the genus.[3]
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]Literature cited
[edit ]- Benda, P. and Vallo, P. 2009. Taxonomic revision of the genus Triaenops (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) with description of a new species from southern Arabia and definitions of a new genus and tribe. Folia Zoologica 58 (Monograph 1):1–45.
- Samonds, K.E. 2007. Late Pleistocene bat fossils from Anjohibe Cave, northwestern Madagascar. Acta Chiropterologica 9(1):39–65.
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