''Triaenops'' is a genus of
bat
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera.''cheir'', "hand" and πτερόν''pteron'', "wing". With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most ...
in the family
Hipposideridae
The Hipposideridae are a family of bats commonly known as the Old World leaf-nosed bats. While it has often been seen as a subfamily, Hipposiderinae, of the family Rhinolophidae, it is now more generally classified as its own family.Simmons, 20 ...
. It is classified in the tribe
Triaenopini, along with the closely related genus ''
Paratriaenops'' and perhaps the poorly known ''
Cloeotis''. The species of ''Paratriaenops'', which occur on Madagascar and the Seychelles, were placed in ''Triaenops'' until 2009. ''Triaenops'' currently contains the following species:
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Triaenops afer''
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Triaenops menamena
''Triaenops menamena'' is a bat in the genus ''Triaenops'' found on Madagascar, mainly in the drier regions. It was known as ''Triaenops rufus'' until 2009, when it was discovered that that name had been incorrectly applied to the species. ''Triae ...
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Triaenops parvus
The Yemeni trident leaf-nosed bat (''Triaenops parvus'') is a species of bat found in the Middle East.
Taxonomy and etymology
It was described as a new species in 2009 by Benda and Vallo.
Before this, it had been considered synonymous with the ...
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Triaenops persicus
The rufous trident bat, Persian trident bat, or triple nose-leaf bat (''Triaenops persicus'') is a species of bat in the genus ''Triaenops''. It occurs in southwestern Pakistan, southern Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen. In the las ...
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Another species, ''
Triaenops goodmani
''Triaenops goodmani'' is an extinct bat from Madagascar in the genus ''Triaenops''. It is known from three lower jaws collected in a cave at Anjohibe in 1996, and described as a new species in 2007. The material is at most 10,000 years old. A ba ...
'', was described from
subfossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...
material on Madagascar in 2007, before ''Paratriaenops'' was split off, but was not considered in the revision that split the genus.
[Samonds, 2007; Benda and Vallo, 2009]
See also
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List of bats of Madagascar
Bats are one of the major components of the indigenous mammalian fauna of Madagascar, in addition to tenrecs, lemurs, euplerid carnivores, and nesomyine rodents. Forty-six bat species have so far been recorded on Madagascar, of which thirty-si ...
References
Literature cited
*Benda, P. and Vallo, P. 2009
Taxonomic revision of the genus ''Triaenops'' (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) with description of a new species from southern Arabia and definitions of a new genus and tribe Folia Zoologica 58 (Monograph 1):1–45.
*Samonds, K.E. 2007
Late Pleistocene bat fossils from Anjohibe Cave, northwestern Madagascar Acta Chiropterologica 9(1):39–65.
Bat genera
Taxa named by George Edward Dobson
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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