Editing Microbat (section)

== Classification ==
[[File:Bats Romania 2003.jpg|thumb|A series of Romanian postage stamps. The bats depicted are (from top to bottom and left to right): the [[greater mouse-eared bat]], the [[lesser horseshoe bat]], the [[brown long-eared bat]], the [[common pipistrelle]], the [[greater noctule bat]], and the [[barbastelle]], Romanian post miniature sheet, 2003]]

While bats have been traditionally divided into megabats and microbats, recent molecular evidence has shown the superfamily Rhinolophoidea to be more genetically related to megabats than to microbats, indicating the microbats are paraphyletic. To resolve the [[paraphyly]] of microbats, the Chiroptera were redivided into suborders [[Yangochiroptera]] (which includes Nycteridae, vespertilionoids, noctilionoids, and emballonuroids) and [[Yinpterochiroptera]], which includes megabats, rhinopomatids, Rhinolophidae, and Megadermatidae.<ref name="microbat paraphyly">{{cite journal|last1=Teeling|first1=E. C.|last2=Madsen|first2=O.|last3=Van de Bussche|first3=R. A.|last4=de Jong|first4=W. W.|last5=Stanhope|first5=M. J.|last6=Springer|first6=M. S.|title=Microbat paraphyly and the convergent evolution of a key innovation in Old World rhinolophoid microbats|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|date=2002|volume=99|issue=3|pages=1431–1436|doi=10.1073/Pnas.022477199|pmid=11805285|pmc=122208|bibcode=2002PNAS...99.1431T}}</ref>

This is the classification according to Simmons and Geisler (1998):

Superfamily [[Emballonuroidea]]
* Family [[Emballonuridae]] ([[sac-winged bat]]s or [[sheath-tailed bat]]s)
Superfamily [[Rhinopomatoidea]]
* Family [[Rhinopomatidae]] ([[mouse-tailed bat]]s)
* Family Craseonycteridae (bumblebee bat or [[Kitti's hog-nosed bat]])
Superfamily [[Rhinolophoidea]]
* Family Rhinolophidae ([[horseshoe bat]]s)
* Family [[Nycteridae]] ([[hollow-faced bat]]s or [[slit-faced bat]]s)
* Family [[Megadermatidae]] ([[false vampire]]s)
Superfamily [[Vespertilionoidea]]
* Family [[Vespertilionidae]] ([[vesper bat]]s or [[evening bat]]s)
Superfamily [[Molossoidea]]
* Family [[Molossidae]] ([[free-tailed bat]]s)
* Family [[Antrozoidae]] ([[pallid bat]]s)
Superfamily [[Nataloidea]]
* Family [[Natalidae]] ([[funnel-eared bat]]s)
* Family [[Myzopodidae]] ([[sucker-footed bat]]s)
* Family [[Thyroptera|Thyropteridae]] ([[disk-winged bat]]s)
* Family [[Furipteridae]] ([[smoky bat]]s)
Superfamily [[Noctilionoidea]]
* Family [[Noctilionidae]] ([[bulldog bat]]s or [[fisherman bat]]s)
* Family [[Mystacinidae]] ([[New Zealand short-tailed bat]]s)
* Family [[Mormoopidae]] ([[ghost-faced bat]]s or [[moustached bat]]s)
* Family [[Phyllostomidae]] ([[leaf-nosed bat]]s)