Mormoopidae Saussure 1860

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Mormoopidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 426-428 : 426

Mormoopidae Saussure 1860

Mormoopidae Saussure 1860 , Rev. Mag. Zool., 2: 286.

Genera: 2 genera with 10 species:

Genus Mormoops Leach 1821 (3 species with 4 subspecies)

Genus Pteronotus Gray 1838 (7 species with 18 subspecies)

Discussion: Revised by Smith (1972); see Lewis-Oritt et al. (2001 a), Simmons and Conway (2001), Van Den Bussche et al. (2002), and Van den Bussche and Weyandt (2003) for phylogenies. See Smith (1972) for a discussion of authorship and priority of the name Mormoopidae .