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Miniopteridae
Description | Miniopterus, known as the bent-winged or long winged bats, is the sole genus of the family Miniopteridae. They are small flying insectivorous mammals, micro-bats of the order Chiroptera, with wings over twice the length of the body. The genus had been placed in its own subfamily among the vespertilionid bats, as Miniopterinae, but is now classified as its own family. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniopteridae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rank | family | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Chiroptera : Miniopteridae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Scientific Name | Miniopteridae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Common Name(s) | Long-fingered Bats | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniopteridae |
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Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Miniopterus genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | Bend-winged Bat | 32 | 13.7 Ma Miocene | 0 Ma Extant |
References
Ruedi, M.,Hulva, P.,Lučan, R. K.,Benda, P.,Hanák, V.,Horáček, I. (2007) Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean. Part 5. Bat fauna of Cyprus: Review of records with confirmation of six species new for the island and description of a new subspecies - via AfriBats |
Miller-Butterworth, Cassandra M., William J. Murphy, Stephen J. O'Brien, David S. Jacobs, et al., 2007: A family matter: conclusive resolution of the taxonomic position of hte long-fingered bats, Miniopterus. Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 24, no. 7. 1553-1561. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
McKenna, Malcolm C., and Susan K. Bell, 1997: null. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. 631. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!