Otonycteris Peters 1859

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 481

Otonycteris Peters 1859

Otonycteris Peters 1859 , Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1859: 223.

Type Species: Otonycteris hemprichii Peters 1859

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Otonycteris hemprichii Peters 1859

Discussion: Often placed in Nycticeini (e.g., Koopman, 1994; McKenna and Bell, 1997), but recent phylogenetic analyses have grouped this taxon with plecotines (Bogdanowicz et al., 1998; Qumsiyeh and Bickham, 1993), although also see Pine et al. (1971) and Hoofer and Van Den Bussche (2001), who suggested a close relationship between Otonycteris and Antrozous .