Triaenops
Sign in to saveTriaenops is a genus of bat in the family Rhinonycteridae. It is classified in the tribe Triaenopini, along with the closely related genus Paratriaenops and perhaps the poorly known Cloeotis. The species of Paratriaenops, which occur on Madagascar and the Seychelles, were placed in Triaenops until 2009. Triaenops currently contains the following species: Triaenops afer Triaenops menamena Triaenops parvus Triaenops persicus Another species, Triaenops goodmani, was described from subfossil material on Madagascar in 2007, before Paratriaenops was split off, but was not considered in the revision
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderChiroptera
- FamilyRhinonycteridae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 10
- Family
- Hipposideridae
- Collections
- LACM, FMNH, NHMUK, UMZC, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Tanzania, Madagascar, Somalia
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- Parent taxon
- Rhinonycteridae
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- Triaenops persicus.png
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Triaenops is a genus of bat in the family Rhinonycteridae. It is classified in the tribe Triaenopini, along with the closely related genus Paratriaenops and perhaps the poorly known Cloeotis. The species of Paratriaenops, which occur on Madagascar and the Seychelles, were placed in Triaenops until 2009. Triaenops currently contains the following species: Triaenops afer Triaenops menamena Triaenops parvus Triaenops persicus Another species, Triaenops goodmani, was described from subfossil material on Madagascar in 2007, before Paratriaenops was split off, but was not considered in the revision that split the genus.
==See also== List of bats of Madagascar
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