Suborder Pteropodiformi Hutcheon & Kirsch, 2006

Pteropodiformes Hutcheon & Kirsch, 2006: 9 .

The classical subdivision of the order Chiroptera into two suborders, Megachiroptera and Microchiroptera, has undergone quite an evolution over the last decennia, which resulted in a rearrangement into the suborders Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera (see ACR 2016: 11–13 for a discussion). As the content of these suborders has changed rather frequently, Hutcheon & Kirsch (2006: 1) suggested two new subordinal names: Vespertilioniformes (for the group including Emballonuridae, Nycteridae, and the ‘yangochiropterans’) and Pteropodiformes (for the taxon comprised of Craseonycteridae, Hipposideridae, Megadermatidae, Rhinolophidae, Rhinopomatidae, and Pteropodidae). However, if the standardization of the nomenclature suggested by Alonso-Zarazaga (2005) is followed, ‘-formes’ indicates ordinal level, while the subordinal suffix should be ‘-formi’, leading to the suborder names Vespertilioniformi and Pteropodiformi .