Grandidier's trident bat

Grandidier's trident bat
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Rhinonycteridae
Genus: Paratriaenops
Species:
P. auritus
Binomial name
Paratriaenops auritus
(Grandidier, 1912)
Distribution of P. auritus (blue), P. furcula (red) and P. pauliani (green)
Synonyms
  • Triaenops aurita Grandidier, 1912
  • Triaenops auritus: Peterson et al., 1995
  • Paratriaenops auritus: Benda and Vallo, 2009

Grandidier's trident bat (Paratriaenops auritus) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae endemic to Madagascar. It was formerly assigned to the genus Triaenops, but is now placed in the separate genus Paratriaenops.