List of natalids

Natalidae is one of the twenty families of bats in the mammalian order Chiroptera and part of the microbat suborder.

[1] No natalids have population estimates, though the Jamaican greater funnel-eared bat is categorized as critically endangered.

A few extinct prehistoric natalid species have been discovered, though due to ongoing research and discoveries the exact number and categorization is not fixed.

The family Natalidae consists of eleven species in three genera: Chilonatalus, Natalus, and Nyctiellus.

Family Natalidae The following classification is based on the taxonomy described by the reference work Mammal Species of the World (2005), with augmentation by generally accepted proposals made since using molecular phylogenetic analysis, as supported by both the IUCN and the American Society of Mammalogists.