Comments: | May not be monophyletic; see Simmons (1998). Includes Nyctophilinae; see Koopman (1984a), Volleth and Tidemann (1991), and Volleth and Heller (1994). Does not include Myotinae; see Volleth and Heller (1994), Simmons (1998), and Simmons and Geisler (1998). Koopman (1994) proposed a tribal classification for the subfamily (subsequently reproduced by McKenna and Bell, 1997), but these groupings have not been supported in phylogenetic studies. Volleth and Tidemann (1991) and Volleth and Heller (1994) proposed a tribal classification based on a phylogenetic analysis of karyotypes but did not include all genera. The tribal classification adopted here follows Koopman (1994) with modifications suggested by Volleth and Tidemann (1991), Tumlinson and Douglas (1992), Frost and Timm (1992), Volleth and Heller (1994), Bogdanowicz et al. (1998), Hoofer and Van Den Bussche (2001), and Volleth et al. (2001). |