Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Chiroptera - (Family) Pteropodidae

Original position

Questionably Epomophorini (Tribe) Gray, 1866

Current position

Epomophorini (Tribe) Gray, 1866

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 298.

Alternative positions

Epomophorinae (Subfamily)	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 574.
Pteropodidae (Family) Gray, 1821	Ref: N.B. Simmons, 2005: 327.
Pteropodinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821	Ref: K.F. Koopman, 1993: 143.

Historical positions

Pteropodidae (Family) Gray, 1821	Ref: N.B. Simmons, 2005: 327.
Epomophorini (Tribe) Gray, 1866	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 298.
Pteropodinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821	Ref: K.F. Koopman, 1993: 143.
Pteropodinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 45.
Epomophorinae (Subfamily)	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 574.

Number of Subtaxa

2026	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	2s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 1 Sep 2014	[2s]
2005	N.B. Simmons: 327	[2s]
1993	K.F. Koopman	[2s]
1993	K.F. Koopman	[2s]
1991	G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill	[2s]