''Triaenops'' is a genus of
bat in the 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, 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:
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Triaenops afer''
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Triaenops menamena''
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Triaenops parvus''
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Triaenops persicus''
Another species, ''
Triaenops goodmani'', was described from
subfossil
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material on Madagascar in 2007, before ''Paratriaenops'' was split off, 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
*Benda, P. and 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 (Monograph 1):1–45.
*Samonds, K.E. 2007
Late Pleistocene bat fossils from Anjohibe Cave, northwestern Madagascar Acta Chiropterologica 9(1):39–65.
Bat genera
Taxa named by George Edward Dobson
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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