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Genus of bats From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rhinonicteris is a genus of leaf-nosed microbats, represented by fossil taxa found at Riverleigh in Queensland and the extant species Rhinonicteris aurantia, which occurs in the north and west of the Australian continent.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Rhinonycteridae |
Genus: | Rhinonicteris Gray, 1847 |
Orange leaf-nosed bat range |
The genus was erected by Gray in 1847 to separate the species Rhinonicteris aurantia, nominating it as the type and only species.[1][2] The genus name published as Rhinonycteris Gray, J.E. 1866 has been regarded as a later correction by Gray, but this has also been determined to be an unjustified emendation.[3][4]
The genus is placed with the family Hipposideridae, the subject of taxonomic instability that has seen itself reduced in rank to a subfamily of Rhinolophidae.[5] A revision in 2014 reëlevated a subfamilial taxon as family Rhinonycteridae, which includes described and proposed fossil taxa:[6]
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