Chalinolobus Peters, 1866 . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1866:679.
TYPE SPECIES: Vespertilio tuberculatus Forster, 1844).
SYNONYMS: Glauconycteris .
COMMENTS: Includes Glauconycteris; see Koopman (1971); but also see Hill and Harrison (1987), who retained Glauconycteris as a distinct genus. Reviewed by Tate (1942a:221- 227) and Ryan (1966).