Mouse-tail-like
The division of living beings into systematics is a continuous subject of research. Different systematic classifications exist side by side and one after the other. The taxon treated here has become obsolete due to new research or is not part of the group systematics presented in the German-language Wikipedia.
The mouse-tail-like (Rhinopomatoidea) are no longer a valid superfamily within the bats (Chiroptera), which occur exclusively in the Old World (northern Africa and southern Asia ).
Features that share the mouse-tail-like skin include a transverse skin furrow over the nostrils, modifications to the hyoid bone and trachea, and the absence of the calcar , a thorn on the ankles of the hind legs that serves to tighten the tail skin.
Phylogenetically , the mouse-tail-like form the sister taxon of the horseshoe bat-like (Rhinolophoidea), a group also restricted to the Old World (see also systematics of bats ).
It is a species-poor superfamily, the five species are divided into two families, the mouse-tailed bats (Rhinopomatidae) and the pig- nosed bat (Craseonycteridae). Both families are now part of the superfamily of the horseshoe bat-like (Rhinolophoidea).
literature
- Kate E. Jones, Andy Purvis, Ann MacLarnon, Olaf R. Bininda-Emonds, Nancy B. Simmons: A phylogenetic supertree of the bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) . In: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society . tape 77 , no. 2 , 2002, p. 223-259 , doi : 10.1017 / S1464793101005899 ( molekularesystematik.uni-oldenburg.de [PDF; 5.2 MB ; accessed on May 15, 2018]).