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Nycteridae (slit-faced bat)
Taxonomy
Nycteridae is a family. It is extant.
It was assigned to Microchiroptera by Flower (1883), Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Chiroptera by Nowak (1991), Wilson and Reeder (2005); and to Emballonuroidea by Ravel et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Microchiroptera by Flower (1883), Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Chiroptera by Nowak (1991), Wilson and Reeder (2005); and to Emballonuroidea by Ravel et al. (2016).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1883 | Nycteridae Flower p. 185 |
| 1891 | Nycteridae Flower and Lydekker p. 92 |
| 1991 | Nycteridae Nowak |
| 2005 | Nycteridae Wilson and Reeder |
| 2016 | Nycteridae Ravel et al. p. 391 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Nycteridae [slit-faced bat]
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G. †Khoufechia Ravel et al. 2016
G. Nycteris Geoffroy 1803
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Nycteris arge Thomas 1903 [Batess slit-faced bat]
Nycteris grandis Peters 1865
Nycteris hispidus Schreber 1775
Nycteris javanica Geoffroy 1813 [Javan slit-faced bat]
Nycteris thebaica Saint-Hilaire 1818 [Egyptian slit-faced bat]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Simmons et al. 2008, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Holocene or 56.00000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 41.03 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 41.03 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Ypresian - Lutetian | Tunisia | Khoufechia gunnelli (87795) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Kenya (Turkana District) | Nycteris sp. (198275) | |
| Pliocene | South Africa | Nycteris sp. (22339) | |
| Gelasian - Calabrian | Kenya | Nycteridae indet., Nycteris sp. (21502) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | South Africa | Nycteris thebaica (21949) | |
| Holocene | South Africa (N. Transraal) | Nycteris thebaica (21693) |