Macronycteris is a genus of bats belonging to the family Hipposideridae.[1]
| Macronycteris | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Hipposideridae |
| Genus: | Macronycteris Gray, 1866 |
The species of this genus are found in Africa.[1]
- Macronycteris besaoka (†) (Samonds, 2007)
- Macronycteris commersoni (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1813)
- Macronycteris cryptovalorona (Goodman et al., 2016)[3]
- Macronycteris gigas (Wagner, 1845)
- Macronycteris thomensis (Bocage, 1891)
- Macronycteris vittata (Peters, 1852)
References
edit- 1 2 3 "Macronycteris Gray, 1866". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
- ↑ Alumbaugh, Jamie L.; Goodman, Steven M.; Samonds, Karen E. (2021). "Morphometric analyses of modern and subfossil Macronycteris (family Hipposideridae) refine groups from Anjohibe Cave, northwestern Madagascar". Acta Chiropterologica. 23 (1): 33–43. doi:10.3161/15081109ACC2021.23.1.003.
- ↑ Goodman, Steven M.; Schoeman, M. Corrie; Rakotoarivelo, Andrinajoro; Willows-Munro, Sandi (2016). "How many species of Hipposideros have occurred on Madagascar since the Late Pleistocene?". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 177 (2): 428–449. doi:10.1111/zoj.12368.