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Phyllostomidae (leaf-nosed bat)
Taxonomy
Phyllostomidae was named by Gray (1825). It is extant. Its type is Phyllostominae.
It was assigned to Animalivora by Cope (1889); to Microchiroptera by Flower (1883) and Jaekel (1911); to Phyllostomoidae by Hay (1930); to Chiroptera by Nowak (1991), Wilson and Reeder (2005) and Czaplewski (2010); and to Noctilionoidea by Shi and Rabosky (2015) and Amador et al. (2018).
It was assigned to Animalivora by Cope (1889); to Microchiroptera by Flower (1883) and Jaekel (1911); to Phyllostomoidae by Hay (1930); to Chiroptera by Nowak (1991), Wilson and Reeder (2005) and Czaplewski (2010); and to Noctilionoidea by Shi and Rabosky (2015) and Amador et al. (2018).
Subtaxa
Artibeus (syn. Arctibeus), Brachyphylla, Carolliinae, Desmodontinae, Erophylla, Glossophaginae, Lonchophylla, Lonchophyllinae, Lophostoma, Macrophyllum, Macrotus, Micronycteris, Mimon, Mormoops, Notonycteris, Phylloderma, Phyllonycteris, Phyllostomatinae, Phyllostominae (type subfamily), Stenoderma, Stenodermatinae, Trachops, Uroderma
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1825 | Phyllostomidae Gray |
| 1883 | Phyllostomidae Flower p. 185 |
| 1889 | Phyllostomidae Cope p. 876 |
| 1891 | Phyllostomatidae Flower and Lydekker p. 92 |
| 1911 | Phyllostomidae Jaekel p. 213 |
| 1930 | Phyllostomidae Hay p. 456 |
| 1951 | Phyllostomatidae Savage |
| 1980 | Phyllostomatidae Kurten and Anderson p. 116 |
| 1988 | Phyllostomatidae Carroll |
| 1991 | Phyllostomidae Nowak |
| 2005 | Phyllostomidae Wilson and Reeder |
| 2010 | Phyllostomidae Czaplewski |
| 2015 | Phyllostomidae Shi and Rabosky |
| 2018 | Phyllostomidae Amador et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Phyllostomidae Gray 1825 [leaf-nosed bat]
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Subfm. Desmodontinae Bonaparte 1845
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G. Desmodus Wied-Neuwied 1826 [vampire bat]
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†Desmodus archaeodaptes Morgan et al. 1988
†Desmodus draculae Morgan et al. 1988
Desmodus rotundus Geoffroy 1810 [common vampire bat]
G. Macrophyllum Gray 1838 [Long-legged bat]
G. Micronycteris Gray 1866 [big-eared bat]
G. Phylloderma Peters 1865
Subfm. Phyllostominae Gray 1825
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G. Phyllostomus Lacépède 1799 [spear-nosed bat]
G. Tonatia Gray 1827
Subfm. Stenodermatinae
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G. Platyrrhinus Saussure 1860 [broad-nosed bat]
Tr. Stenodermatini
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Subtr. Stenodermatina
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G. †Cubanycteris Mancina and García-Rivera 2005
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†Cubanycteris silvai Mancina and García-Rivera 2005
G. Sturnira Gray 1842 [yellow-shouldered bat]
G. Uroderma Peters 1865
Invalid names: Lonchophyllinae Griffiths 1982 [empty], Phyllostomatidae Savage 1951 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available