Micronycteris

Micronycteris
Common big-eared bat (Micronycteris microtis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Phyllostomidae
Genus:	Micronycteris Gray, 1866
Species
Micronycteris brosseti Micronycteris buriri Micronycteris giovanniae Micronycteris hirsuta Micronycteris homezi Micronycteris matses Micronycteris megalotis Micronycteris microtis Micronycteris minuta Micronycteris sanborni Micronycteris schmidtorum Micronycteris yatesi

Micronycteris is a genus of leaf-nosed bats.

List of species

Genus Micronycteris - little big-eared bats

• Brosset's big-eared bat, Micronycteris brosseti Simmons & Voss, 1998
• Micronycteris buriri Larsen, Siles, Pedersen, & Kwiecinski, 2011
• Micronycteris giovanniae Baker & Fonseca, 2007
• Hairy big-eared bat, Micronycteris hirsuta (Peters, 1869)
• Matses's big-eared bat, Micronycteris matses Simmons, Voss, & Fleck, 2002
• Little big-eared bat, Micronycteris megalotis (Gray, 1842)
• Common big-eared bat, Micronycteris microtis Miller, 1898
• White-bellied big-eared bat, Micronycteris minuta (Gervais, 1855)
• Sanborn's big-eared bat, Micronycteris sanborni Simmons, 1996
• Schmidts's big-eared bat, Micronycteris schmidtorum Sanborn, 1935
• Yates's big-eared bat, Micronycteris yatesi Siles & Brooks, 2013^[1]

References

• Simmons, N.B. (2005). "Order Chiroptera". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
• Ochoa, J. G., & J. H. Sánchez. 2005. Taxonomic status of Micronycteris homezi (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Mammalia 69:323–335.
• Fonseca, R. M., S. R. Hoofer, C. A. Porter, C. A. Cline, D. A. Parish, F. G. Hoffmann, & R. J. Baker. 2007. Morphological and molecular variation within Little Big-eared bats of the genus Micronycteris (Phyllostomidae: Micronycterinae) from San Lorenzo, Ecuador. In: Kelt, D.A., Lessa, E.P., Salazar-Bravo, J., Patton, J.L. (Eds.),The Quintessential Naturalist: Honoring the Life and Legacy of Oliver P. Pearson, vol. 134. University of California Publications in Zoology, pp. 721–746,1–981.
• Larsen, P. A., L. Siles, S. C. Pedersen, AND G. G. Kwiecinski. 2011. A new species of Micronycteris (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Saint Vincent, Lesser Antilles. Mammalian Biology 76:687–700.
• Siles, L., D. M. Brooks, H. Aranibar, T. Tarifa, R. J.Vargas M., J. M. Rojas, & R. J. Baker. 2013. A new species of Micronycteris (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Bolivia. Journal of Mammalogy 94(4):881–896.