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Hipposideridae  Lydekker, 1891
Taxonomic Serial No.: 945847

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s): Hipposiderinae Lydekker, 1891
  
  Common Name(s): Old World leaf-nosed bats [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2020   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderChiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 – morcego, quiróptero, bats  
                                  SuborderYinpterochiroptera Springer, Teeling, Madsen, Stanhope and Jong, 2001  
                                     SuperfamilyRhinolophoidea Gray, 1825  
                                        FamilyHipposideridae Lydekker, 1891 – Old World leaf-nosed bats  
    Direct Children:  
                                           Genus Anthops Thomas, 1888  
                                           Genus Asellia Gray, 1838  
                                           Genus Aselliscus Tate, 1941  
                                           Genus Coelops Blyth, 1848  
                                           Genus Doryrhina Peters, 1871  
                                           Genus Hipposideros Gray, 1831  
                                           Genus Macronycteris Gray, 1866  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Nancy Simmons  
  Notes: Curator-in-Charge, Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History   
  Reference for: Hipposideridae    
       
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  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Foley, Nicole M., Vu Dinh Thong, Pipat Soisook, Steven M. Goodman, Kyle N. Armstrong, et al.  
  Publication Date: 2015   
  Article/Chapter Title: How and Why Overcome the Impediments to Resolution: Lessons from rhinolophid and hipposiderid Bats   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 32, no. 2   
  Page(s): 313-333   
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  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 0737-4038   
  Notes: doi: 10.1093/molbev/msu329   
  Reference for: Hipposideridae   
       
  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: Hipposideridae   
       
  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: Hipposideridae   
       
  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: Hipposideridae, Old World leaf-nosed bats [English]   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Comments: Treated as a subfamily of Rhinolophidae by Koopman (1993, 1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Simmons (1998), Simmons and Geisler (1998), and Teeling et al. (2002), but returned to family rank here following Corbet and Hill (1992), Bates and Harrison (1997), Bogdanowicz and Owen (1998), Hand and Kirsch (1998), and numerous other authors. McKenna and Bell (1997) used the name Rhinonycterinae Gray, 1866 for this group, but this has not been accepted by other authors. Although Rhinonycteridae (= R...  
 

 

    

 
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