Taphozous nudiventris Cretzschmar, 1830 . In Ruppell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afr., Saugeth., p. 70.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Giza .

DISTRIBUTION: Mauritania, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau, south to Tanzania and east to Burma.

COMMENT: Includes kachensis; see Felten, 1962, Senckenberg. Biol., 43: 175. Formerly included in Liponycteris; see Hayman and Hill, 1971, Part 2: 15; and Barghorn, 1977, Am. Mus. Novit., 2618:5.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301405003009012001 as T. nudiventris .

5301405003009006001 as T. kachhensis (sic).