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 thebaica species group
             1 Nycteris gambiensis (Andersen, 1912) - Gambian slit-faced bat
             2 Nycteris thebaica Geoffroy, 1818 - Egyptian slit-faced bat
             3 Nycteris vinsoni Dalquest, 1965 - Vinson's slit-faced bat