Phylogenetic Relationships and Classification of the Higher Categories of the New World Bat Family Phyllostomidae

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Abstract
A new classification of the higher taxonomic levels within the New World bat family Phyllostomidae is presented which designates evolutionary relationships, provides a phylogenetic framework upon which modifications can be made as new comparative data are produced, and resolves certain obvious unnatural taxa that exist in the traditional classification. This new classification is a synthesis of classical morphological, chromosomal, and biochemical data. Within the family three subfamilies, the Desmodontinae, Phyllostominae, and Vampyrinae are recognized. The Desmodontinae includes the three genera of vampires, the Vampyrinae includes Vampyrum, Trachops, and Chrotopterus, and the Phyllostominae contains three tribes, the Phyllostomini (including Phyllostomus, Tonatia, Mimon, Lonchorhina, and Macrophyllum), the Glossophagini (including genera of the previously recognized Glossophaginae and Brachyphyllinae), and Stenodermatini (including genera of the previously recognized Stenodermatinae and Carolliinae). Two genera (Macrotus and Micronycteris), do not share synapomorphies with any of these subfamilies, but have retained a large number of plesiomorphic features and are placed as incertae sedis.

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