Chiroptera Blumenbach 1779

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 : 312

Chiroptera Blumenbach 1779

Families: 18 families with 202 genera and 1116 species:

Family Pteropodidae Gray 1821 (42 genera with 186 species and 206 subspecies)

Family Rhinolophidae Gray 1825 (1 genus with 77 species and 151 subspecies)

Family Hipposideridae Lydekker 1891 (9 genera with 81 species and 96 subspecies)

Family Megadermatidae H. Allen 1864 (4 genera with 5 species and 22 subspecies)

Family Rhinopomatidae Bonaparte 1838 (1 genus with 4 species and 10 subspecies)

Family Craseonycteridae Hill 1974 (1 genus with 1 species)

Family Emballonuridae Gervais 1855 (13 genera with 51 species and 61 subspecies)

Family Nycteridae Van der Hoeven 1855 (1 genus with 16 species and 18 subspecies)

Family Myzopodidae Thomas 1904 (1 genus with 1 species)

Family Mystacinidae Dobson 1875 (1 genus with 2 species)

Family Phyllostomidae Gray 1825 (55 genera with 160 species and 142 subspecies)

Family Mormoopidae Saussure 1860 (2 genera with 10 species and 22 subspecies)

Family Noctilionidae Gray 1821 (1 genus with 2 species and 6 subspecies)

Family Furipteridae Gray 1866 (2 genera with 2 species)

Family Thyropteridae Miller 1907 (1 genus with 3 species and 5 subspecies)

Family Natalidae Gray 1866 (3 genera with 8 species and 12 subspecies)

Family Molossidae Gervais 1856 (16 genera with 100 species and 108 subspecies)

Family Vespertilionidae Gray 1821 (48 genera with 407 species and 445 subspecies)

Discussion: As is the case for all species in this book, the conservation status for each bat species is reported below based upon listings of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ( CITES), the United States Endangered Species Act ( U.S. ESA), and the 2003 International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Redlist (here cited " IUCN 2003"). In addition, two IUCN / SSC Action Plans provide more detailed information. The Action Plan for Old World Fruit Bats ( Pteropodidae ; cited below as " IUCN / SSC Action Plan, 1992", compiled by Mickleburgh et al., 1992) is over a decade old, but provides detailed information on the conservation status of subspecies as well as species of pteropodids, including the status of taxa not thought to be at risk. This publication also summarizes considerable information on ecology and population biology of pteropodids. The conservation status of other families of bats was assessed more recently in the Global Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan for Microchiropteran Bats (cited below as " IUCN / SSC Action Plan, 2001", compiled by Hutson et al., 2001). This work summarized the status of each microchiropteran species recognized by Koopman (1993) as well as some additional species described or revised subsequent to that publication. Threat categories listed in this work are identical to those found in the IUCN 2003 Redlist (which for bats is identical to the 2000 Redlist), but additional regional and taxon-specific conservation status information is included. Although both of the Action Plans were very comprehensive, many of the conservation assessments need to be revised in light of the new classification presented here, which includes 191 species not listed in Koopman (1993). Some of these are new species discovered in the last decade, but many were previously considered to be subspecies of other taxa. The majority of these newly recognized species have restricted geographic ranges, and may therefore be at risk. In addition, many long-recognized species are now believed to have much smaller geographic ranges than previously thought (a result of "taxonomic pruning" of populations now considered to be distinct species). The conservation status of these taxa should also be reevaluated.