Order Chiroptera Author Karl F. Koopman text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 137 241 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353060 54c9783b-6624-4034-96d9-d09afe43b319 1-56098-217-9 7353060 Miniopterus Bonaparte, 1837 . Fauna Ital., 1, fase. 20 . TYPE SPECIES: Vespertilio schreibersii Kuhl, 1817 . COMMENTS: Reviewed by (in part) Peterson (1981) . See Goodwin (1979:119) , Maeda (1982) , and Hill (1983) . All have come to very different conclusions.