Glossophagini Bonaparte 1845

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Phyllostomidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 395-426 : 397

Glossophagini Bonaparte 1845

Glossophagini Bonaparte 1845 , Cat. Meth. Mamm. Europe: 5.

Genera: 10 genera with 23 species:

Genus Anoura Gray 1838 (5 species with 3 subspecies)

Genus Choeroniscus Thomas 1928 (3 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Choeronycteris Tschudi 1844 (1 species)

Genus Glossophaga E. Geoffroy 1818 (5 species with 18 subspecies)

Genus Hylonycteris Thomas 1903 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Leptonycteris Lydekker 1891 (3 species)

Genus Lichonycteris Thomas 1895 (1 species)

Genus Monophyllus Leach 1821 (2 species with 6 subspecies)

Genus Musonycteris Schaldach and McLaughlin 1960 (1 species)

Genus Scleronycteris Thomas 1912 (1 species)

Discussion: Equivalent to Glossophaginae as used by Griffiths (1982). See discussion in Wetterer et al. (2000); also see Carstens et al. (2002). Informally divided into to two groups by Carstens et al. (2002); "choeronycterines" ( Anoura , Choeronycteris , Choeroniscus , Hylonycteris , Lichonycteris , Musonycteris , and Scleronycteris ), and "glossophagines" ( Glossophaga , Leptonycteris , and Monophyllus ).