Miniopterus

Familia: Miniopteridae
Genus:
Species (41 + †4): M. aelleni – M. africanus – M. ambohitrensis – M. arenarius – M. australis – M. brachytragos – M. egeri – M. eschscholtzii – M. fraterculus – M. fuliginosus – M. fuscus – M. gleni – M. griffithsi – M. griveaudi – M. inflatus – M. macrocneme – M. maghrebensis – M. magnater – M. mahafaliensis – M. majori – M. manavi – M. medius – M. minor – M. mossambicus – M. natalensis – M. newtoni – M. nimbae – M. orianae – M. pallidus – M. paululus – M. petersoni – M. phillipsi – M. pusillus – M. robustior – M. schreibersii – M. shortridgei – M. sororculus – M. srinii – M. tristis – M. villiersi – M. wilsoni – †M. approximatus – †M. fossilis – †M. tao – †M. zapfei

Miniopterus Bonaparte, 1837: pl. 2

• Type species: Vespertilio ursinii Bonaparte, 1837.

• Bonaparte, C.L. 1832–1841. Iconographia della Fauna Italica per le Quattro Classi degli Animali Vertebrati. Tomo I. Mammiferi e Uccelli. Salviucci: Rome. BHL Reference page. 

• Simmons, N.B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. Pp. 312–529 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) . Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page. 
• Miller-Butterworth, C.M., Eick, G., Jacobs, D.S., Schoeman, M.C. & Harley, E.H. 2005. Genetic and phenotypic differences between South African long-fingered bats, with a global miniopterine phylogeny. Journal of Mammalogy 86(6): 1121–1135. DOI: 10.1644/05-MAMM-A-021R1.1 Reference page. 
• Goodman, S.M., Ryan, K.E., Maminirina, C.P., Fahr, J., Christidis, L. & Appleton, B. 2007. Specific Status of Populations on Madagascar Referred to Miniopterus fraterculus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), with Description of a New Species. Journal of Mammalogy 88(5): 1216–1229. DOI: 10.1644/06-MAMM-A-285R1.1 Reference page. 
• Juste, J., Ferrández, A., Fa, J.E., Masefield, W. & Ibáñez, C. 2007. Taxonomy of little bent-winged bats (Miniopterus, Miniopteridae) from the African islands of São Tomé, Grand Comoro and Madagascar, based on based on mtDNA. Acta Chiropterologica 9(1): 27–37. DOI: 10.3161/1733-5329(2007)9[27:TOLBBM]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 
• Miller-Butterworth, C.M., Murphy, W.J., O'Brien S.J., Jacobs, D.S., Springer, M.S. & Teeling, E.C. 2007. A family matter: conclusive resolution of the taxonomic position of the long-fingered bats, Miniopterus. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24(7): 1553–1561. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm076 Reference page. 
• Goodman, S.M., Bradman, H.M., Maminirina, C.P., Ryan, K.E., Christidis, L. & Appleton, B. 2008. A new species of Miniopterus (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) from lowland southeastern Madagascar. Mammalian Biology 73(3): 199–213. DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2007.12.003 Reference page. 
• Goodman, S.M., Maminirina, C.P., Weyeneth, N., Bradman, H.M., Christidis, L., Ruedi, M. & Appleton, B. 2009. The use of molecular and morphological characters to resolve the taxonomic identity of cryptic species: the case of Miniopterus manavi (Chiroptera, Miniopteridae). Zoologica Scripta 38(4): 339–363. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00377.x Reference page. 
• Goodman, S.M., Maminirina, C.P., Bradman, H.M., Christidis, L. & Appleton, B. 2009. The use of molecular phylogenetic and morphological tools to identify cryptic and paraphyletic species: Examples from the diminutive long-fingered bats (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae: Miniopterus) on Madagascar. American Museum Novitates 3669: 1–34. DOI: 10.1206/652.1 Reference page. 
• Goodman, S.M., Maminirina, C.P., Bradman, H.M., Christidis, L. & Appleton, B. 2010. Patterns of morphological and genetic variation in the endemic Malagasy bat Miniopterus gleni (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae), with the description of a new species, M. griffithsi. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 48(1): 75–86. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2009.00524.x Reference page. 
• Goodman, S.M., Ramasindrazana, R., Maminirina, C.P., Schoeman, M.C. & Appleton, B. 2011. Morphological, bioacoustical, and genetic variation in Miniopterus bats from eastern Madagascar, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 2880(1): 1–19. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2880.1.1 Reference page. 
• Monadjem, A., Goodman, S.M., Stanley, W.T. & Appleton, B. 2013. A cryptic new species of Miniopterus from south-eastern Africa based on molecular and morphological characters. Zootaxa 3746(1): 123–142. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3746.1.5 Reference page. 
• Puechmaille, S.J., Allegrini, B., benda, P., Gürün, K., Šrámek, J., Ibáñez, C., Juste, J. & Bilgin, R. 2014. A new species of the Miniopterus schreibersii species complex (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) from the Maghreb Region, North Africa. Zootaxa 3794(1): 108–124. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3794.1.4 Reference page. 
• Goodman, S.M., Ramasindrazana, B., Naughton, K.M. & Appleton, B. 2015. Description of a new species of the Miniopterus aelleni group (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) from upland areas of central and northern Madagascar. Zootaxa 3936(4): 538–558. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.4.4 Reference page. 
• Demos, T.C., Webala, P.W., Lutz, H.L., Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., Goodman, S.M., Cortés‐Delgado, N., Bartonjo, M. & Patterson, B.D. 2020. Multilocus phylogeny of a cryptic radiation of Afrotropical long-fingered bats (Chiroptera, Miniopteridae). Zoologica Scripta 49(1): 1–13. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12388 Reference page. 
• Monadjem, A., Shapiro, J.T., Richards, L.R., Karabulut, H., Crawley, W., Nielsen, I.B., Hansen, A., Bohmann, K. & Mourier, T. 2020. Systematics of West African Miniopterus with the Description of a New Species. Acta Chiropterologica 21(2): 237–256. DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2019.21.2.001 Reference page. 
• Monadjem, A., Guyton, J., Naskrecki, P., Richards, L.R., Kropff, A.S. & Dalton, D.L. 2020. Cryptic Diversity in the Genus Miniopterus with the Description of a New Species from Southern Africa. Acta Chiropterologica 22(1): 1–19. DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2020.22.1.001 Reference page. 
• Kusuminda, T., Mannakkara, A., Ukuwela, K.D.B., Kruskop, S.V., Amarasinghe, C.J., Saikia, U., Venugopal, P., Karunarathna, M., Gamage, R., Ruedi, M., Csorba, G., Yapa, W.B. & Patterson, B.D. 2022. DNA barcoding and morphological analyses reveal a cryptic species of Miniopterus from India and Sri Lanka. Acta Chiropterologica 24(1): 1–17. DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2022.24.1.001 Reference page. 
• Demos, T.C., Webala, P.W., Goodman, S.M., Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., Lutz, H.L., Agwanda, B.R., Cortés‐Delgado, N., Briones, S., Ree, R.H. & Patterson, B.D. 2023. Ultraconserved elements resolve phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic history of African-Malagasy bent-winged bats (Miniopterus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 188: 107890. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107890 Reference page. 
• Srinivasulu, B. & Srinivasulu, A. 2023. A new species of the Miniopterus australis species complex (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) from the Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 5296(2): 233–249. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5296.2.5 Reference page. 

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