Micronycteris Gray, 1866

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 178

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Micronycteris Gray, 1866 View in CoL View at ENA . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866:113.

TYPE SPECIES: Phyllophora megalotis Gray, 1842 View in CoL .

SYNONYMS: Barticonycteris, Glyphonycteris, Lampronycteris, Neonycteris, Trinycteris, Xenoctenes (see Koopman, 1978b:4).

COMMENTS: Corbet and Hill (1980:54) listed Barticonycteris as a distinct genus without comment. Revised by Sanborn (1949). A key to the genus was presented by Medellin et al. (1985).

References

Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp.

Gray, J. E. 1842. Description of two new species of Mammalia discovered in Australia by Captain George Gray (Tarsipes Spenserae and Chaeropus castanotis). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, [ser. 1], 9: 39 - 42.

Koopman, K. F. 1978 b. Zoogeography of Peruvian bats with special emphasis on the role of the Andes. American Museum Novitates, 2651: 1 - 33.

Medellin, R. A., D. E. Wilson, and D. Navarro L. 1985. Micronycteris brachyotis. Mammalian Species, 251: 1 - 4.

Sanborn, C. C. 1949. Bats of the genus Micronycteris and its subgenera. Fieldiana: Zoology, 31: 215 - 233.