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Miniopterus Bonaparte, 1837
Taxonomic Serial No.: 631397

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
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	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 – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals
	Subclass	Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897
	Infraclass	Eutheria Gill, 1872
	Order	Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 – morcego, quiróptero, bats
	Suborder	Yangochiroptera Koopman, 1984
	Superfamily	Vespertilionoidea Gray, 1821
	Family	Miniopteridae Dobson, 1875 – long-fingered bats
	Genus	Miniopterus Bonaparte, 1837
		Direct Children:
	Species	Miniopterus aelleni Goodman, Weyeneth, Ibrahim, Saïd and Ruedi, 2010 – Aellen's Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus africanus Sanborn, 1936 – African Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus ambohitrensis Goodman, Ramasindrazana, Naughton and Appleton, 2015 – Montagne d'Ambre Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus arenarius Heller, 1912 – Sandy Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus australis Tomes, 1858 – Little Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus blepotis (Temminck, 1840) – Javanese Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus brachytragos Goodman, Maminirina, Bradman, Christidis and Appleton, 2009 – Madagascar Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus egeri Goodman, Ramasindrazana, Maminirina, Schoeman and Appleton, 2011 – Eger's Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus eschscholtzii (Waterhouse, 1845) – Eschscholtz's Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus fraterculus Thomas and Schwann, 1906 – Lesser Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus fuliginosus (Hodgson, 1835) – Asian Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus fuscus Bonhote, 1902 – Southeast Asian Long-fingered Bat, Ryukyu Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus gleni Peterson, Eger and Mitchell, 1995 – Glen's Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus griffithsi Goodman, Maminirina, Bradman, Christidis and Appleton, 2010 – Griffiths's Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus griveaudi Harrison, 1959 – Griveaud's Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus inflatus Thomas, 1903 – Greater Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus macrocneme Revilliod, 1914 – Small Melanesian Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus maghrebensis Puechmaille, Allegrini, Benda, Bilgin, Ibañez and Juste, 2014 – Maghrebian Bent-wing Bat, Minioptère du Maghreb, Murciélago de cueva magrebí, Maghrebian Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus magnater Sanborn, 1931 – Western Bent-winged Bat, Western Long-fingered Bat, Large Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus mahafaliensis Goodman, Maminirina, Bradman, Christidis and Appleton, 2009 – Mahafaly Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus majori Thomas, 1906 – Major's Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus manavi Thomas, 1906 – Manavi Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus medius Thomas and Wroughton, 1909 – Intermediate Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus minor Peters, 1867 – Least Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus mossambicus Monadjem, Goodman, Stanley and Appleton, 2013 – Mozambique Long-fingered Bat, Mozambican Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus natalensis (A. Smith, 1833) – Natal Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus newtoni Bocage, 1889 – Newton's Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus nimbae Monadjem, Shapiro, Richards, Karabulut, Crawley, Neilsen, Hansen, Bohmann and Mourier, 2020 – Nimba long-fingered bat
	Species	Miniopterus orianae Thomas, 1922 – Australian Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus pallidus Thomas, 1907 – Pallid Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus paululus Hollister, 1913 – Philippine Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus petersoni Goodman, Ramasindrazana, Maminirina, Schoeman and Appleton, 2011 – Peterson's Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus pusillus Dobson, 1876 – Small Bent-winged Bat, Small Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus robustior Revilliod, 1914 – Loyalty Bent-winged Bat, Loyalty Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus schreibersii (Kuhl, 1817) – Schreibers's Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus shortridgei Laurie and Hill, 1957 – Shortridge's Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus sororculus Goodman, Ryan, Maminirina, Fahr, Christidis and Appleton, 2007 – Sorocula Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus tristis (Waterhouse, 1845) – Great Bent-winged Bat, Great Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus villiersi Aellen, 1956 – Villiers's Long-fingered Bat
	Species	Miniopterus wilsoni Monadjem, Guyton, Naskrecki, L. R. Richards, Kropff and Dalton, 2020 – Wilson's Long-fingered Bat

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Don E. Wilson
	Notes:	Smithsonian Institution, MRC 108 Washington DC 20560-0108
	Reference for:	Miniopterus

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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:	Miniopterus

	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. Vol. 9: Bats
	Page(s):	1008
	Publisher:	Lynx Edicions
	Publication Place:	Barcelona, Spain
	ISBN/ISSN:	978-84-16728190
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Miniopterus

	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:	Miniopterus

Geographic Information


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Comments


	Comment:	Comments: Reviewed (in part) by Goodwin (1979), Peterson (1981), Maeda (1982), Hill (1983), Corbet and Hill (1992), and Peterson et al. (1995). These authors have often come to different conclusions regarding classification and synonymys; the arrangement given here generally follows Corbet and Hill (1992) and Peterson et al. (1995). See Maeda (1982) and Peterson et al. (1995) for a summary of authorship, type localities, and holotypes of most named forms

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