Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals Subclass Theria Parker & Haswell, 1897 Order Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 - bats Family Pteropodidae Gray, 1821 - Old World fruit bats Genus Melonycteris Dobson, 1877 Subgenus Nesonycteris Thomas, 1887 Melonycteris woodfordi (Thomas, 1887) - Woodford's fruit bat Melonycteris woodfordi aurantius Phillips, 1966