Hipposideridae

Hipposideridae
Temporal range: Eocene to present
Commerson's leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros commersoni)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Superfamily: Rhinolophoidea
Family: Hipposideridae
Lydekker, 1891
Type genus
Hipposideros
Gray, 1831
Genera

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Synonyms

The Hipposideridae are a family of bats commonly known as the Old World leaf-nosed bats. While it has often been seen as a subfamily, Hipposiderinae, of the family Rhinolophidae, it is now more generally classified as its own family.[1] Nevertheless, it is most closely related to Rhinolophidae within the suborder Yinpterochiroptera.[2]

  1. ^ a b Simmons, 2005, p. 365
  2. ^ Hutcheon and Kirsch, 2006


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