Triaenops

Triaenops
Skull of Triaenops menamena
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Rhinonycteridae
Tribe:	Triaenopini
Genus:	Triaenops Dobson, 1871
Distribution of Triaenops (blue—T. afer; brown—†T. goodmani; green—T. menamena; red—T. persicus; yellow—T. persicus plus T. parvus)

Triaenops is a genus of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is classified in the tribe Triaenopini, along with the closely related genus Paratriaenops and perhaps the poorly known Cloeotis. The species of Paratriaenops, which occur on Madagascar and the Seychelles, were placed in Triaenops until 2009. Triaenops currently contains the following species:

• Triaenops afer
• Triaenops menamena
• Triaenops parvus
• Triaenops persicus

Another species, Triaenops goodmani, was described from subfossil material on Madagascar in 2007, before Paratriaenops was split off, but was not considered in the revision that split the genus.

See also

• List of bats of Madagascar

Literature cited

• Benda, P. and Vallo, P. 2009. Taxonomic revision of the genus Triaenops (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) with description of a new species from southern Arabia and definitions of a new genus and tribe. Folia Zoologica 58 (Monograph 1):1–45.
• Samonds, K.E. 2007. Late Pleistocene bat fossils from Anjohibe Cave, northwestern Madagascar. Acta Chiropterologica 9(1):39–65.