Desmodus

Desmodus is a genus of bats which—along with the genera Diaemus and Diphylla—are allied as the subfamily Desmodontinae, the carnivorous, blood-consuming vampire bats of the New World leaf-nosed bat family Phyllostomidae.<ref name="WilsonReeder2005"/>

The genus was erected in 1826 to accommodate a new species Desmodus rufus described by Maximilian Wied in the second volume of his work detailing his explorations in Brazil.<ref name="Wied">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="WilsonReeder2005">Template:Cite book</ref> The type species was previously described with the name Phyllostoma rotundus by Étienne Geoffroy in 1810.<ref name="WilsonReeder2005" />

• subfamilia Desmodontinae

• genus Desmodus

• Template:ExtinctDesmodus archaeodaptes, extinct,<ref name="Morgan 1988">Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Template:ExtinctDesmodus draculae – giant vampire bat, extinct,<ref name="Turvey2009">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Turvey2008">Template:Cite web</ref>
• Desmodus rotundus – common vampire bat, extant,<ref name="WilsonReeder2005"/><ref name="Barquez2008">Template:Cite iucn</ref>

• Template:ExtinctDesmodus rotundus puntajudensis (Desmodus puntajudensis) - Cuban vampire bat, extinct,<ref name="Turvey2009"/><ref name="Suarez2005">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

• Template:ExtinctDesmodus stocki – Stock's vampire bat, extinct.<ref name="Turvey2009"/><ref name="KnoxJones1958">Template:Cite journal</ref>

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