Brachyphylla Gray, 1834 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833:122 [1834].

TYPE SPECIES: Brachyphylla cavernarum Gray, 1834 .

COMMENTS: Revised by Swanepoel and Genoways (1978). A key to this genus was presented by Swanepoel and Genoways (1983a).