Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
   Order Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 - bats
     Family Pteropodidae Gray, 1821 - Old World fruit bats
       Subfamily Pteropodinae Gray, 1821
         Genus Aethalops Thomas, 1923 - pygmy fruit bat
           1 Aethalops alecto (Thomas, 1923) - pygmy fruit bat