Hipposideridae Lydekker 1891

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Hipposideridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 365-379 : 365

Hipposideridae Lydekker 1891

Hipposideridae Lydekker 1891 , in: Flower and Lydekker, Mamm., Living and Extinct: 657.

Synonyms: Coelopsinae Tate 1941 .

Genera: 9 genera with 81 species:

Genus Anthops Thomas 1888 (1 species)

Genus Asellia Gray 1838 (2 species with 4 subspecies)

Genus Aselliscus Tate 1941 (2 species with 4 subspecies)

Genus Cloeotis Thomas 1901 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Coelops Blyth 1848 (2 species with 7 subspecies)

Genus Hipposideros Gray 1831 (67 species with 76 subspecies)

Genus Paracoelops Dorst 1947 (1 species)

Genus Rhinonicteris Gray 1847 (1 species)

Genus Triaenops Dobson 1871 (4 species with 3 subspecies)

Discussion: Treated as a subfamily of Rhinolophidae by Koopman (1993, 1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Simmons (1998), Simmons and Geisler (1998), and Teeling et al. (2002), but returned to family rank here following Corbet and Hill (1992), Bates and Harrison (1997), Bogdanowicz and Owen (1998), Hand and Kirsch (1998), and numerous other authors. McKenna and Bell (1997) used the name Rhinonycterinae Gray, 1866 for this group, but this has not been accepted by other authors. Although Rhinonycteridae (= Rhinonycterina Gray, 1866) has prioriy over Hipposideridae as a family-group name, nobody other than Gray (1866) used the former name until it was resurrected by McKenna and Bell (1997). Miller (1907) used the name Hipposideridae for this group because Hipposideros Gray, 1831 has priority over Rhinonycteris Gray, 1866 (= Rhinonicteris Gray, 1847 ). All subsequent authors have followed Miller's (1907) usage of Hipposideridae /inae, and I believe that there is little to be gained by replacing it with an unknown name. I therefore retain Hipposideridae for this group pending action by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. McKenna and Bell (1997) proposed a tribal classification for hipposiderids (which they treated as a subfamily), but many of the groups they defined have subsequently been shown to be paraphyletic ( Bogdanowicz and Owen, 1998; Hand and Kirsch, 1998); accordingly, I do not recognize subfamilies or tribes within Hipposideridae at this time.