Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
   Order Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 - bats
     Family Pteropodidae Gray, 1821 - Old World fruit bats
       Subfamily Macroglossinae Gray, 1866
         Genus Melonycteris Dobson, 1877
           1 Melonycteris aurantius Phillips, 1966 - orange fruit bat see Melonycteris woodfordi aurantius Phillips, 1966
           2 Melonycteris melanops Dobson, 1877 - black-bellied fruit bat
           3 Melonycteris woodfordi (Thomas, 1887) - Woodford's fruit bat
           4 Subgenus Nesonycteris Thomas, 1887