''Paratriaenops'' is a genus in the
bat family
Hipposideridae
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.Simmons, 2 ...
. It is classified in the tribe
Triaenopini
Rhinonycteridae is a family of bats, allied to the suborder Microchiroptera. The type species, the orange nose-leafed species group '' Rhinonicteris aurantia'', is found across the north of Australia.
Description
The family accords with the d ...
, along with the closely related genus ''
Triaenops
''Triaenops'' is a genus of bat in the family Hipposideridae. 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 ...
'' and perhaps the poorly known ''
Cloeotis''. The species of ''Paratriaenops'' were placed in ''Triaenops'' until 2009. ''Paratriaenops'' currently contains the following species:
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Paratriaenops auritus''
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Paratriaenops furculus''
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Paratriaenops pauliani''
''P auritus'' and ''P. furculus'' are found on
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
, ''P. pauliani'' in the
Seychelles
Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, ...
. The species ''
Triaenops goodmani'' was described from
subfossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...
material on Madagascar in 2007, before ''Paratriaenops'' was erected, but was not considered in the revision that split the genus.
[Samonds, 2007; Benda and Vallo, 2009]
See also
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List of bats of Madagascar
References
Literature cited
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Bat genera
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