Triaenops afer

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Rhinolophoidea
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: Yinpterochiroptera Superfamilia: Rhinolophoidea

Triaenops afer Peters, 1877: 913

Holotype: ZMB 5074.

Type locality: “Mombaça[= Mombasa, Kenya].”

Triaenops persicus majusculus Aellen & Brosset, 1968: 450 [synonymysed by Benda & Vallo, 2009: 26]

Peters, W. 1877. Mittheilung über eine kleine Sammlung von Säugethieren, welche der Reisende Hr. J. M. Hildebrandt aus Mombaca in Ostafrica eingesand hat. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1876: 912–914. Reference page.
Aellen, V. & Brosset, A. 1968. Chiroptères du sud du Congo (Brazzaville). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 75: 435–458. BHL Reference page.
Benda, P. & Vallo, P. 2009. Taxonomic revision of the genus Triaenops (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) with description of a new species from southern Arabia and definitions of a new genus and tribe. Folia Zoologica 58: 1–45. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Triaenops afer in Mammal Species of the World.
Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.

English: African Trident Bat