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Vespertilioninae Gray, 1821
Taxonomic Serial No.: 552345

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Subfamily
	Synonym(s):
	Common Name(s):

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2021

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cord�s, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vert�br�s, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammif�res, mam�fero, mammals
	Subclass	Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897
	Infraclass	Eutheria Gill, 1872
	Order	Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 – morcego, quir�ptero, bats
	Suborder	Yangochiroptera Koopman, 1984
	Superfamily	Vespertilionoidea Gray, 1821
	Family	Vespertilionidae Gray, 1821 – vesper bats, vespertilionid bats, evening bats
	Subfamily	Vespertilioninae Gray, 1821
		Direct Children:
	Tribe	Antrozoini Miller, 1897 – New World yellow bats
	Tribe	Eptesicini Volleth and Heller, 1994 – serotines
	Tribe	Lasiurini Tate, 1942 – hairy-tailed bats
	Tribe	Nycticeiini Gervais, 1855 – evening bats
	Tribe	Perimyotini – Canyon Bat, Tricolored Bat
	Tribe	Pipistrellini Tate, 1942 – pipistrelles
	Tribe	Plecotini Gray, 1866 – long-eared bats
	Tribe	Scotophilini Hill and Harrison, 1987 – Old World yellow bats
	Tribe	Vespertilionini Gray, 1821

	Subfamily	Vespertilioninae Gray, 1821 incertae sedis
		Children with Uncertain Position:
	Genus	Rhyneptesicus Bianchi, 1917

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Alfred L. Gardner
	Notes:	Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
	Reference for:	Vespertilioninae

	Expert:	Don E. Wilson
	Notes:	Smithsonian Institution, MRC 108 Washington DC 20560-0108
	Reference for:	Vespertilioninae

	Other Source(s):
	Source:
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	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Simmons, Nancy B. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	2005
	Article/Chapter Title:	Order Chiroptera
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2
	Page(s):	312-529
	Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
	Publication Place:	Baltimore, Maryland, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-8018-8221-4
	Notes:	Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
	Reference for:	Vespertilioninae

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds.
	Publication Date:	2019
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Handbook of the Mammals of the World. 9. Bats
	Page(s):	1008
	Publisher:	Lynx Edicions
	Publication Place:	Barcelona, Spain
	ISBN/ISSN:	978-84-16728190
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Vespertilioninae

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
	Page(s):	xviii + 1207
	Publisher:	Smithsonian Institution Press
	Publication Place:	Washington, DC, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	1-56098-217-9
	Notes:	Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
	Reference for:	Vespertilioninae

Geographic Information


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Comments


	Comment:	Comments: May not be monophyletic; see Simmons (1998). Includes Nyctophilinae; see Koopman (1984a), Volleth and Tidemann (1991), and Volleth and Heller (1994). Does not include Myotinae; see Volleth and Heller (1994), Simmons (1998), and Simmons and Geisler (1998). Koopman (1994) proposed a tribal classification for the subfamily (subsequently reproduced by McKenna and Bell, 1997), but these groupings have not been supported in phylogenetic studies. Volleth and Tidemann (1991) and Volleth and Heller ...

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