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Glauconycteris Dobson, 1875
Taxonomic Serial No.: 945887

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Niumbaha Reeder, Helgen, Vodzak, Lunde and Ejotre, 2013
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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	Vespertilionidae Gray, 1821 – vesper bats, vespertilionid bats, evening bats
	Subfamily	Vespertilioninae Gray, 1821
	Tribe	Eptesicini Volleth and Heller, 1994 – serotines
	Genus	Glauconycteris Dobson, 1875
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	Species	Glauconycteris alboguttata J. A. Allen, 1917 – White-spotted Butterfly Bat, Striped Butterfly Bat, Allen's striped bat
	Species	Glauconycteris argentata (Dobson, 1875) – Silvered Bat, Common Butterfly Bat, Silvery Butterfly Bat
	Species	Glauconycteris atra Hassanin et al., 2018 – Blackish Butterfly Bat
	Species	Glauconycteris beatrix Thomas, 1901 – Beatrix Butterfly Bat, Beatrix's Bat
	Species	Glauconycteris curryae Eger and Schlitter, 2001 – Curry's Butterfly Bat
	Species	Glauconycteris egeria Thomas, 1913 – Bibundi Butterfly Bat, Bibundi bat
	Species	Glauconycteris gleni Peterson and Smith, 1973 – Glen's Butterfly Bat, Glen's wattled bat
	Species	Glauconycteris humeralis J. A. Allen, 1917 – Spotted Butterfly Bat, Allen's Spotted Bat
	Species	Glauconycteris kenyacola Peterson, 1982 – Kenyan Butterfly Bat, Kenyacola Butterfly Bat, Kenyan wattled bat
	Species	Glauconycteris machadoi Hayman, 1963 – Machado's Butterfly Bat
	Species	Glauconycteris poensis (Gray, 1842) – Abo Butterfly Bat
	Species	Glauconycteris superba Hayman, 1939 – Pied Butterfly Bat, Badger Bat, Superb Butterfly Bat
	Species	Glauconycteris variegata (Tomes, 1861) – Leaf-winged Bat, Variegated Butterfly Bat

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	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Hoofer, Steven R., Ronald A. Van Den Bussche, and Ivan Horácek
	Publication Date:	2006
	Article/Chapter Title:	Generic status of the American Pipistrelles (Vespertilionidae) with description of a new genus
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 87, no. 5
	Page(s):	981-992
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	ISBN/ISSN:	0022-2372
	Notes:	Available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/4094268
	Reference for:	Glauconycteris

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Reeder, DeeAnn M., Kristofer M. Helgen, Megan E. Vodzak, Darrin P. Lunde, and Imran Ejotre
	Publication Date:	2013
	Article/Chapter Title:	A new genus for a rare African vespertilionid bat: insights from South Sudan
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	ZooKeys, vol. 285
	Page(s):	89-115
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	ISBN/ISSN:	1313-2989
	Notes:	doi: 10.3897/zookeys.285.4892; available online at http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/4892/
	Reference for:	Glauconycteris

	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:	Glauconycteris

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds.
	Publication Date:	2019
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	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
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