Hipposideridae Explained

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.[1] Nevertheless, it is most closely related to Rhinolophidae within the suborder Yinpterochiroptera.[2]

Taxonomy

The Hipposideridae contain 10 living genera and more than 70 species, mostly in the widespread genus Hipposideros.[3] In addition, several fossil genera are known; the oldest fossils attributed to the family are from the middle Eocene of Europe.[4] In their 1997 Classification of Mammals, Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell proposed a division of Hipposideridae (called Rhinonycterinae in their work) into three tribes, one with two subtribes,[5] but these tribes turned out to be non-monophyletic and have been abandoned.[1] A different classification was proposed by Hand and Kirsch in 2003.[6] In 2009, Petr Benda and Peter Vallo proposed a separate tribe, Triaenopini, for the genera Triaenops, Paratriaenops, and possibly Cloeotis,[7] synonymised in a 2014 revision (Foley, et al.) that elevated the family Rhinonycteridae.[8] The Hipposideridae have many different families, previously confused to be the same for their similar appearance. The Hipposideridae fulvus is very similar to the Hipposideridae Pomona, which were a part of the same family in the past. The macrobullatus, considered to be a subspecies of the Hipposideridae are also part of a different family. Among the Hipposideridae species, there is an increased amount of mitochondrial differentation, possibly leading to these subspecies being intermixed and confused as one.[9] [10] [11]

Genera

The genera included in Hipposideridae are:[12]

Living

(Note that genus Paracoelops was previously listed for Vietnam is now a synonym of Hipposideros pomona)

Extinct

List of species

References

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Simmons, 2005, p. 365
  2. Hutcheon and Kirsch, 2006
  3. Simmons, 2005, pp. 365–379
  4. McKenna and Bell, 1997, p. 306
  5. McKenna and Bell, 1997, pp. 306–307
  6. Hand and Kirsch, 2003, table 3
  7. Benda and Vallo, 2009, p. 33
  8. Foley . Nicole M. . Thong . Vu Dinh . Soisook . Pipat . Goodman . Steven M. . Armstrong . Kyle N. . Jacobs . David S. . Puechmaille . Sébastien J. . Teeling . Emma C. . How and Why Overcome the Impediments to Resolution: Lessons from rhinolophid and hipposiderid Bats . Molecular Biology and Evolution . February 2015 . 32 . 2 . 313–333 . 10.1093/molbev/msu329. 25433366 . 4769323 .
  9. Vallo . Peter . Benda . Petr . Martínková . Natália . Kaňuch . Peter . Kalko . Elisabeth K. V. . Červený . Jaroslav . Koubek . Petr . Morphologically Uniform Bats Hipposideros aff. Ruber (Hipposideridae) Exhibit High Mitochondrial Genetic Diversity in Southeastern Senegal . Acta Chiropterologica . June 2011 . 13 . 1 . 79–88 . 10.3161/150811011X578633 . en . 1508-1109.
  10. Hill . J. E. . Zubaid . A. . Davison . G. W. H. . The taxonomy of leaf-nosed bats of the Hipposideros bicolor group (Chiroptera : Hipposideridae) from southeastern Asia. . Mammalia . 1 January 1986 . 50 . 4 . 535–540 . 10.1515/mamm.1986.50.4.535 . en . 1864-1547.
  11. Monadjem . Ara . Richards . Leigh . Taylor . Peter J. . Denys . Christiane . Dower . Aisling . Stoffberg . Samantha . Diversity of Hipposideridae in the Mount Nimba massif, West Africa, and the Taxonomic Status of Hipposideros lamottei . Acta Chiropterologica . December 2013 . 15 . 2 . 341–352 . 10.3161/150811013X678964 . en . 1508-1109.
  12. Simmons, 2005, pp. 365–379; McKenna and Bell, 1997, pp. 306–307; other sources cited for specific genera
  13. Hand and Kirsch, 2003
  14. Archer et al., 2006, p. 7
  15. Ziegler, 2000, p. 652; Hand and Kirsch, 2003, table 3; cf. McKenna and Bell, 1997, p. 305 (excluded from Rhinonycterinae)
  16. 10.3161/150811011X624749. Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Asellia(Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) with a Description of a New Species from Southern Arabia. Acta Chiropterologica. 13. 2. 245–270. 2011. Benda. Petr. Vallo. Peter. Reiter. Antonín.
  17. Foley. N. M.. Goodman. S. M.. Whelan. C. V.. Puechmaille. S. J.. Teeling. E.. June 2017. Towards Navigating the Minotaur's Labyrinth: Cryptic Diversity and Taxonomic Revision within the Speciose Genus Hipposideros (Hipposideridae). Acta Chiropterologica. 19. 1. 1–18. 10.3161/15081109acc2017.19.1.001.
  18. Goodman. S. M.. Schoeman. M. C.. Rakotoarivelo. A.. Willows-Munro. S.. How many species of Hipposideros have occurred on Madagascar since the Late Pleistocene?. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 177. 2. 2016. 428–449. 10.1111/zoj.12368. free.

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