Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals Order Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 - bats Family Vespertilionidae Gray, 1821 - vespertilionid bats Subfamily Vespertilioninae Gray, 1821 Genus Nyctalus Bowdich, 1825 - noctule bats Nyctalus noctula (Schreber, 1774) - noctule