Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
   Order Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 - bats
     Family Phyllostomidae Gray, 1825 - New-World leaf-nosed bats
       Subfamily Phyllostominae Gray, 1825
         Genus Vampyrum Rafinesque, 1815 - Linnaeus's false vampire bat
           1 Vampyrum spectrum (Linnaeus, 1758) - American false vampire bat