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The Yinpterochiroptera is a proposed suborder of the Chiroptera, which includes the megabats and three of the microbat families: Rhinopomatidae, Rhinolophidae and Megadermatidae. This taxon is primarily based on molecular genetics data. This is a relatively recent proposal, which challenges the traditional view that megabats and microbats form monophyletic groups of bats. Further studies are being conducted, using both molecular and morphological cladistic methodology, to assess its merit.1
The term Yinpterochiroptera is constructed from the words Pteropodidae (the family of megabats) and Yinochiroptera (a term proposed in 1984 by Karl F. Koopman to refer to certain families of microbats2).
Apparently the first appearance of the term Yinpterochiroptera was in 2001, in an article by Mark Springer et al.3
As an alternative to the subordinal names Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera, some researchers use the terms Pteropodiformes and Vespertilioniformes.24 Under this new proposed nomenclature, Pteropodiformes is the suborder that would replace Yinpterochiroptera.
References
- ^ "Order Chiroptera bats". animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu. Retrieved on 2007-12-30.
- ^ a b James M. Hutcheon and John A.W. Kirsch. "A moveable face: deconstructing the Microchiroptera and a new classification of extant bats". doi:10.3161/1733-5329(2006)8%5B1:AMFDTM%5D2.0.CO;2.
- ^ "Table 2, Traditional and proposed classifications for bats included in this study". Integrated fossil and molecular data reconstruct bat echolocation (2001). "The proposed suborder Yinpterochiroptera is based on the conjunction of ‘yin’ and ‘ptero’ to reflect the composition of this new taxon."
- ^ Eick et al. (2005). A Nuclear DNA Phylogenetic Perspective on the Evolution of Echolocation and Historical Biogeography of Extant Bats (Chiroptera). doi:. "Following the recommendations of Hutcheon and Kirsch (2004), we refer to the two suborders of chiropterans as ‘Pteropodiformes’ (comprising the Pteropodidae, Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae, Megadermatidae, and Rhinopomatidae) and ‘Vespertilioniformes’ (remaining microbat families).".
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