Hipposideros

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Hipposideros m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Hipposideridae – roundleaf bats.

• Thought to be paraphyletic, but no consensus exists on alternative phylogenies.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria – infraclass; Boreoeutheria – magnorder; Laurasiatheria – superorder; Chiroptera – order; Microchiroptera - suborder; Rhinolophoidea - superfamily; Hipposideridae - family

• (genus): Hipposideros armiger (great roundleaf bat), Hipposideros ater (dusky roundleaf bat), Hipposideros bicolor (bicolored leaf-nosed bat), Hipposideros caffer (Sundevall's leaf-nosed bat), Hipposideros calcaratus (spurred leaf-nosed bat), Hipposideros cervinus (fawn-colored leaf-nosed bat), Hipposideros cineraceus (ashy leaf-nosed bat), Hipposideros diadema (diadem roundleaf bat), Hipposideros papua (Biak roundleaf bat), Hipposideros ruber (Noack's roundleaf bat), Hipposideros speoris (Schneider's roundleaf bat), Hipposideros turpis (lesser roundleaf bat) - selected species

• Hipposideros on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hipposideros on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Hipposideros on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Hipposideros in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.
• Hipposideros at AnimalBase
• Hipposideros at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Hipposideros at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Hipposideros at Paleobiology Database