Nyctophilus Leach 1821

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 468

Nyctophilus Leach 1821

Nyctophilus Leach 1821 , Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., 13: 78.

Type Species: Nyctophilus geoffroyi Leach 1821

Synonyms: Lamingtona McKean and Calaby 1968 .

Species and subspecies: 11 species with 8 subspecies:

Species Nyctophilus arnhemensis Johnson 1959

Species Nyctophilus bifax Thomas 1915

Subspecies Nyctophilus bifax subsp. bifax Thomas 1915

Subspecies Nyctophilus bifax subsp. daedalus Thomas 1915

Species Nyctophilus geoffroyi Leach 1821

Subspecies Nyctophilus geoffroyi subsp. geoffroyi Leach 1821

Subspecies Nyctophilus geoffroyi subsp. pacificus Gray 1831

Subspecies Nyctophilus geoffroyi subsp. pallescens Thomas 1913

Species Nyctophilus gouldi Tomes 1858

Species Nyctophilus heran Kitchener, How, and Maharadatunkamsi 1991

Species Nyctophilus howensis McKean 1975

Species Nyctophilus microdon Laurie and Hill 1954

Species Nyctophilus microtis Thomas 1888

Species Nyctophilus nebulosus Parnaby 2002

Species Nyctophilus timoriensis (E. Geoffroy 1806)

Subspecies Nyctophilus timoriensis subsp. timoriensis E. Geoffroy 1806

Subspecies Nyctophilus timoriensis subsp. major Gray 1844

Subspecies Nyctophilus timoriensis subsp. sherrini Thomas 1915

Species Nyctophilus walkeri Thomas 1892

Discussion: Includes Lamingtona , see Hill and Koopman (1981). Australian species reviewed by Hall and Richards (1979).