Taxonomy Profile: Pteropodidae (Gray 1821)

Pteropodidae: Taxonomy and Nomenclature
Kingdom:
Animalia
Taxonomic Rank:
Family
Synonym(s):
Common Name(s):
flying foxes []
Old World fruit bats []
megabats []
non-echolocating bats []
Taxonomic Status:
Current Standing:
valid
Data Quality Indicators:
Record Credibility Rating:
TWG standards met
Pteropodidae: Taxonomic Hierarchy
Kingdom : Animalia
animals |
Animal |
animaux |
Subkingdom : Bilateria
Infrakingdom : Deuterostomia
Phylum : Chordata
chordates |
cordado |
cordés |
Subphylum : Vertebrata
vertebrates |
vertebrado |
vertébrés |
Infradivision : Gnathostomata
Superclass : Tetrapoda
Class : Mammalia
mammals |
mamífero |
mammifères |
Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Eutheria
Order : Chiroptera
bats |
morcego |
quiróptero |
Family : Pteropodidae
flying foxes |
Old World fruit bats |
megabats |
non-echolocating bats |
Pteropodidae Direct Children(s):
Pteropodinae
(Gray 1821)
Cynopterinae
(Andersen 1912)
Macroglossusinae
(Almeida Simmmons and Giannini 2020)
Harpyionyterinae
(Miller 1907)
Rousettinae
(Andersen 1912)
Eidolinae
(Almeida Giannini and Simmons 2016)
Notopterisinae
(Almeida Simmmons and Giannini 2020)
Nyctimeninae
(Miller 1907)
Pteropodidae: References
Expert(s):
Expert:
Don E. Wilson
Notes:
Smithsonian Institution, MRC 108 Washington DC 20560-0108
Reference for:
Pteropodidae
Expert:
Alfred L. Gardner
Notes:
Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
Reference for:
Pteropodidae
Expert:
Nancy Simmons
Notes:
Curator-in-Charge, Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History
Reference for:
Pteropodidae
Source(s):
Source:
NODC Taxonomic Code
Acquired:
1996-07-29
Notes:
Reference for:
Pteropodidae
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1987-01-01 / 1987-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Resource Publication, no. 166
Page(s):
79
Publisher:
United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
Publication Place:
Washington, D.C., USA
ISBN/ISSN:
/
Notes:
Reference for:
Pteropodidae
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Pteropodidae
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Simmons, Nancy B. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Order Chiroptera
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2
Page(s):
312-529
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Pteropodidae
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Teeling, Emma C., Mark S. Springer, Ole Madsen, Paul Bates, Stephen O'Brien, and William J. Murphy
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-01-28 / 2005-01-28
Article/Chapter Title:
A molecular phylogeny for bats illuminates biogeography and the fossil record
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Science, vol. 307, no. 5709
Page(s):
580-584
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/0036-8075
Notes:
DOI: 10.1126/science.1105113
Reference for:
Pteropodidae
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2019-01-01 / 2019-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 9: Bats
Page(s):
1008
Publisher:
Lynx Edicions
Publication Place:
Barcelona, Spain
ISBN/ISSN:
978-84-16728190/
Notes:
Reference for:
Pteropodidae
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Almeida, Francisca Cunha, Nancy B. Simmons, and Norberto P. Giannini
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2020-04-13 / 2020-04-13
Article/Chapter Title:
A Species-level Phylogeny of Old World Fruit Bats with a New Higher-level Classification of the Family Pteropodidae
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
American Museum Novitates, no. 3950
Page(s):
1-24
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/0003-0082
Notes:
doi: 10.1206/3950.1
Reference for:
Pteropodidae
Pteropodidae: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Pteropodidae: Comments
Comment:
Comments: Various workers have recognized between two and six subfamilies of Pteropodidae including: Cynopterinae Andersen, 1912, Epomophorinae K. Andersen, 1912, Harpionycterinae Miller, 1907, Nyctimeninae Miller, 1907, Macroglossinae Gray, 1866, Rousettinae Andersen, 1912, and Pteropodinae Gray, 1821 (Bergmans, 1997; Corbet and Hill, 1980, 1992; Hill and Smith, 1984; Koopman, 1993, 1994; McKenna and Bell, 1997). Recent phylogenetic studies agree that Macroglossinae and Pteropodinae sensu Koopman (1...
Comment:
Family Pteropodidae Gray, 1821 (TSN 180029) has not been placed in a superfamily (Simmons, pers. comm., 2014)