Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
   Subclass Theria Parker & Haswell, 1897
     Order Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 - bats
       Family Nycteridae van der Hoeven, 1855 - slit-faced bats
         Genus Nycteris Geoffroy & Cuvier, 1795 - slit-faced bats
           Nycteris hispida species group
             1 Nycteris aurita (Andersen, 1912)
             2 Nycteris grandis Peters, 1865 - large slit-faced bat
             3 Nycteris hispida (Schreber, 1775) - hairy slit-faced bat