Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
Subclass Theria Parker & Haswell, 1897
Order Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 - bats
Family Mormoopidae Saussure, 1860 - naked-backed bats, moustached bats, ghost-faced bats
Genus Pteronotus Gray, 1838 - naked-backed bats, moustached bats
Subgenus Phyllodia Gray, 1843
Pteronotus parnellii (Gray, 1843) - Parnell's moustached bat
Pteronotus parnellii paraguanensis Linares & Ojasti, 1974