Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1
313
350
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316519
Lissonycteris
K. Andersen 1912
Lissonycteris
K.
Andersen 1912
,
Catalogue Chir. Brit.
Mus
. I. Megachiroptera, 23: 814
.
Type Species:
Cynopterus angolensis
Bocage 1898
Species and subspecies:
1 species with 5 subspecies:
Species
Lissonycteris angolensis
(Bocage 1898)
Subspecies
Lissonycteris angolensis
subsp.
angolensis
Bocage 1898
Subspecies
Lissonycteris angolensis
subsp.
goliath
Bergmans 1997
Subspecies
Lissonycteris angolensis
subsp.
petraea
Bergmans 1997
Subspecies
Lissonycteris angolensis
subsp.
ruwenzorii
Eisentraut 1965
Subspecies
Lissonycteris angolensis
subsp.
smithii
Thomas 1908
Discussion:
Originally named as a subgenus of
Rousettus
. Often considered a junior synonym of either
Rousettus
(see
Koopman, 1975
) or
Myonycteris
(see
Peterson et al., 1995
), but
Juste et al. (1997)
showed that
Lissonycteris
is distinct from the latter genera.
Bergmans (1997)
also treated
Lissonycteris
as distinct, although he noted that it appears very closely related to
Myonycteris
(a conclusion confirmed by
Juste et al., 1997
).