Lissonycteris K. Andersen 1912

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 313-350 : 325

Lissonycteris K. Andersen 1912

Lissonycteris K. Andersen 1912 , Catalogue Chir. Brit. Mus. I. Megachiroptera, 23: 814.

Type Species: Cynopterus angolensis Bocage 1898

Species and subspecies: 1 species with 5 subspecies:

Species Lissonycteris angolensis (Bocage 1898)

Subspecies Lissonycteris angolensis subsp. angolensis Bocage 1898

Subspecies Lissonycteris angolensis subsp. goliath Bergmans 1997

Subspecies Lissonycteris angolensis subsp. petraea Bergmans 1997

Subspecies Lissonycteris angolensis subsp. ruwenzorii Eisentraut 1965

Subspecies Lissonycteris angolensis subsp. smithii Thomas 1908

Discussion: Originally named as a subgenus of Rousettus . Often considered a junior synonym of either Rousettus (see Koopman, 1975) or Myonycteris (see Peterson et al., 1995), but Juste et al. (1997) showed that Lissonycteris is distinct from the latter genera. Bergmans (1997) also treated Lissonycteris as distinct, although he noted that it appears very closely related to Myonycteris (a conclusion confirmed by Juste et al., 1997).