Tonatia

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Theria
Infraclassis: Eutheria
Ordo: Chiroptera
Subordo: Microchiroptera
Superfamilia: Noctilionoidea
Familia: Phyllostomidae
Subfamilia: Phyllostominae
Genus: Tonatia
Species: T. bidens - T. saurophila

Name

Tonatia Gray, 1827

Type Species: Vampyrus bidens Spix, 1823

Synonyms

Anthorhina Lydekker, 1891
Phyllostoma Gray, 1838
Tylostoma Gervais, 1855
Vampyrus Spix, 1823

References

Gray. 1827. In Griffith, Anim. Kingdom, 5: 71.
Tonatia in Mammal Species of the World.
Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (eds) (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed).

Vernacular names
English: Round-eared bats.

Tonatia is a small genus of South and Central American phyllostomid bats.[1]
Species

Greater round-eared bat, Tonatia bidens Spix, 1823
Stripe-headed round-eared bat, Tonatia saurophila Koopman & Williams, 1951

References

Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 312–529, ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0, retrieved 4 October 2009