Concise hierarchy

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

Subsequent positions

Rhinolophoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825

Original entries

Questionably Hipposiderinae (Subfamily) Lydekker, in Flower & Lydekker, 1891
Questionably †Vaylatsia (Genus) Sigé, 1990

Subsequent entries

Rhinonycterinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1866

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 306.

Current position

Rhinolophoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825

Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).

Alternative positions

Chiroptera (Order) Blumenbach, 1779	Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 58.
Microchiroptera (Suborder) Dobson, 1875	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 53.

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: 58.
Chiroptera (Order) Blumenbach, 1779	Ref: N.B. Simmons, 2005: 350.
Rhinolophoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 305.
Chiroptera (Order) Blumenbach, 1779	Ref: 1995
Chiroptera (Order) Blumenbach, 1779	Ref: K.F. Koopman, 1993: 163; 5.
Microchiroptera (Suborder) Dobson, 1875	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 53.
Rhinolophoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 631.
Rhinolophoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1028-1029; 1026.
Rhinolophoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 576.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	1g;77s;151ss; †1g;2s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 15 Sep 2014	[1g;77s;151ss; †1g]
2011	D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder: 58	1g;80s
2005	N.B. Simmons: 365	[1g;77s;151ss]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[10g; †5g]
1993	K.F. Koopman	10g;130s
1991	G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill	[1g];~64s
1982	A.F. DeBlase	2sf;[9g;125s]