Micronycteris

Micronycteris
Common big-eared bat (Micronycteris microtis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Phyllostomidae
Subfamily:	Micronycterinae
Genus:	Micronycteris Gray, 1866
Type species
Phyllophora megalotis Gray, 1842
Species
Micronycteris brosseti Micronycteris buriri Micronycteris giovanniae Micronycteris hirsuta Micronycteris homezi Micronycteris matses Micronycteris megalotis Micronycteris microtis Micronycteris minuta Micronycteris sanborni Micronycteris schmidtorum Micronycteris yatesi

Micronycteris is a genus of leaf-nosed bats.^[1]

List of species

Genus Micronycteris - little big-eared bats

• Brosset's big-eared bat, Micronycteris brosseti Simmons & Voss, 1998
• Saint Vincent big-eared bat, Micronycteris buriri Larsen, Siles, Pedersen, & Kwiecinski, 2011
• Micronycteris giovanniae Baker & Fonseca, 2007
• Hairy big-eared bat, Micronycteris hirsuta (Peters, 1869)
• Matses's big-eared bat, Micronycteris matses Simmons, Voss, & Fleck, 2002
• Little big-eared bat, Micronycteris megalotis (Gray, 1842)
• Common big-eared bat, Micronycteris microtis Miller, 1898
• White-bellied big-eared bat, Micronycteris minuta (Gervais, 1855)
• Sanborn's big-eared bat, Micronycteris sanborni Simmons, 1996
• Schmidts's big-eared bat, Micronycteris schmidtorum Sanborn, 1935
• Yates's big-eared bat, Micronycteris yatesi Siles & Brooks, 2013^[2]

References

1. Simmons, N.B. (2005). "Order Chiroptera". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 312–529. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
2. Siles, Lizette; Brooks, Daniel M.; Aranibar, Hugo; Tarifa, Teresa; Vargas m, R. Julieta; Rojas, José M.; Baker, Robert J. (2013). "A new species of Micronycteris(Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Bolivia". Journal of Mammalogy. 94 (4): 881–896. doi:10.1644/12-MAMM-A-259.1.

• Ochoa, J. G., & J. H. Sánchez. 2005. Taxonomic status of Micronycteris homezi (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Mammalia 69:323–335.
• Fonseca, R. M., S. R. Hoofer, C. A. Porter, C. A. Cline, D. A. Parish, F. G. Hoffmann, & R. J. Baker. 2007. Morphological and molecular variation within Little Big-eared bats of the genus Micronycteris (Phyllostomidae: Micronycterinae) from San Lorenzo, Ecuador. In: Kelt, D.A., Lessa, E.P., Salazar-Bravo, J., Patton, J.L. (Eds.),The Quintessential Naturalist: Honoring the Life and Legacy of Oliver P. Pearson, vol. 134. University of California Publications in Zoology, pp. 721–746,1–981.
• Larsen, P. A., L. Siles, S. C. Pedersen, AND G. G. Kwiecinski. 2011. A new species of Micronycteris (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Saint Vincent, Lesser Antilles. Mammalian Biology 76:687–700.