Rhinonycteridae

Foley, Nicole M., Thong, Vu Dinh, Soisook, Pipat, Goodman, Steven M., Armstrong, Kyle N., Jacobs, David S., Puechmaille, Sebastien J. & Teeling, Emma C., 2014, How and Why Overcome the Impediments to Resolution: Lessons from rhinolophid and hipposiderid Bats, Molecular Biology and Evolution 32 (2), pp. 313-333 : 324

Rhinonycteridae

The original description of Rhinonycterina was recognized by later studies and was expanded to include Triaenops and Cloeotis as these taxa fitted the original description for the Rhinonycterina based primarily on noseleaf morphology ( Hill 1982). The association of these genera is also supported by our molecular data, which show that Triaenops and Cloeotis are sister taxa ( fig. 2 ) and, furthermore, form a monophyletic group with Rhinonicteris . The data also support the recent separation of Triaenops and Paratriaenops but do not support the monophyly of the recently erected Tribe Triaenopini ( Benda and Vallo 2009) . Strong support was found for Paratriaenops as the basal clade of the extant crown group rhinonycterids ( fig. 2 ).

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FIG. 2. Phylogram inferred from Bayesian Analysis in BEAST on the exon+intron-outliers removed data set,10,420 bp comprising 12 nuclear exons and 7 nuclear introns, under a fully partitioned model. Nodal support for the exon+intron-outliers removed data set is summarized on the tree for all four analyses—RaxML, BEAST, MrBayes, and PhyloBayes. All numeric support values are shown as percentages and refer to each analysis in the order listed above. Black squares denote highly supported nodes all of which received support 4 99 BSS or 0.99 PP across all four analyses. A “-” indicates that this relationship was not supported by the analysis. See Systematic Summary for full description of the newly elevated family Rhinonycteridae. Frontal views of nose leaves of representatives of the major clades are shown as follows: Rhinolophidae—Rhinolophus pearsoni and Hipposideridae—Hipposideros spp. (photo credit—Sebastien J. Puechmaille) and Rhinonycteridae—Triaenops (photo credit—Paul Webala).