Concise hierarchy

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

Subsequent positions

Rhinolophoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825

Original entries

Questionably Cardioderma (Genus) Peters, 1873
Questionably Macroderma (Genus) Miller, 1906
Questionably †Necromantis (Genus) Weithofer, 1887

Subsequent entries

Lavia (Genus) Gray, 1838
Megaderma (Genus) Geoffroy, 1810

Current position

Rhinolophoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825

Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27); Upham et al., 2019: Data S3.

Alternative positions

Chiroptera (Order) Blumenbach, 1779	Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 59.
Megadermatoidea (Superfamily)	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 576.
Microchiroptera (Suborder) Dobson, 1875	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 52.

Historical positions

Rhinolophoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825	Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).
Chiroptera (Order) Blumenbach, 1779	Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 59.
Chiroptera (Order) Blumenbach, 1779	Ref: N.B. Simmons, 2005: 379.
Rhinolophoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 304.
Chiroptera (Order) Blumenbach, 1779	Ref: 1995
Chiroptera (Order) Blumenbach, 1779	Ref: K.F. Koopman, 1993: 162; 5.
Microchiroptera (Suborder) Dobson, 1875	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 52.
Rhinolophoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 631.
Rhinolophoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1028; 1026.
Megadermatoidea (Superfamily)	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 576.

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	4g;5s;22ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 16 Jun 2022	[4g;5s;22ss]
2011	D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder: 59	4g;5s
2005	N.B. Simmons: 380	[4g;5s;22ss]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[4g; †1g]
1993	K.F. Koopman	4g;5s
1991	G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill	[4g];~5s
1982	A.F. DeBlase	4g;5s