Phyllostomidae

Desmodus rotundus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Noctilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Scrotifera Ordo: Chiroptera Subordo: Yangochiroptera Superfamilia: Noctilionoidea

Familia: Phyllostomidae
Subfamiliae (11): Carolliinae – Desmodontinae – Glossophaginae – Glyphonycterinae – Lonchophyllinae – Lonchorhininae – Macrotinae – Micronycterinae – Phyllostominae – Rhinophyllinae – Stenodermatinae

Name

Phyllostomidae Gray, 1825

Synonymy

• Phyllostomina Gray, 1825: 242
• Phyllostomidae Waterhouse, 1838: 1

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1825. An attempt at a division of the family Vespertilionidæ into groups. The Zoological Journal 2(6): 242–243. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Griffiths, T.A. 1982. Systematics of the New World nectar-feeding bats (Mammalia, Phyllostomidae), based on the morphology of the hyoid and lingual regions. American Museum Novitates 2742. hdl: 2246/5298 PDF Reference page. 
• McKenna, M.C. & Bell, S.K. (eds.). 1997. Classification of mammals: above the species level. Columbia University Press: New York. xii + 631 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Google Books Reference page. 
• Wetterer, A.L., Rockman, M.V. & Simmons, N.B. 2000. Phylogeny of phyllostomid bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera): data from diverse morphological systems, sex chromosomes, and restriction sites. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 248: 1–200. hdl: 2246/1595 Reference page. 
• Carstens, B.C., Lundrigan, B.L. & Myers, P. 2002. A Phylogeny of the Neotropical Nectar-Feeding Bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) Based on Morphological and Molecular Data. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 9: 23–53. DOI: 10.1023/A:1021331711108 Reference page. 
• Baker, R.J., Hoofer, S.R., Porter, C.A. & Van Den Bussche, R.A. 2003. Diversification among New World Leaf-Nosed Bats: An Evolutionary Hypothesis and Classification Inferred from Digenomic Congruence of DNA Sequence. Occasional Papers. Museum of Texas Tech University 230: 1–32. PDF Reference page. 
• Simmons, N.B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. Pp. 312–529 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) . Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page. 
• Datzmann, T., von Helversen, O. & Mayer, F. 2010. Evolution of nectarivory in phyllostomid bats (Phyllostomidae Gray, 1825, Chiroptera: Mammalia). BMC Evolutionary Biology 10(1): 1-14. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-165 Reference page. 
• Dávalos, L.M., Cirranello, A.L., Geisler, J.H. & Simmons, N.B. 2012. Understanding phylogenetic incongruence: lessons from phyllostomid bats. Biological Reviews 87(4): 991–1024. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00240.x Reference page. 
• Baker, R.J., Cirranello, A., Solari, S. & Simmons, N.B. 2016. Higher Level Classification of Phyllostomid Bats with a Summary of DNA Synapomorphies. Acta Chiropterologica 18(1): 1–38. DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.1.001 Reference page. 
• Cirranello, A., Simmons, N.B., Solari, S. & Baker, R.J. 2016. Morphological diagnoses of higher-level phyllostomid taxa (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Acta Chiropterologica 18(1): 39–71. DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.1.002 Reference page. 
• Rojas, D., Warsi, O.M. & Dávalos, L.M. 2016. Bats (Chiroptera: Noctilionoidea) Challenge a Recent Origin of Extant Neotropical Diversity. Systematic Biology 65(3): 432–448. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syw011 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Blattnasen
English: New World Leaf-nosed Bats

For more multimedia, look at Phyllostomidae on Wikimedia Commons.