Taphozous nudiventris Cretzschmar, 1830. In Rüppell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afr., Zool. Säugeth., 1:70. TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Giza. DISTRIBUTION: Mauritania, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau to Egypt, south to Tanzania and east to Burma. SYNONYMS: assabensis, babylonicus, kachhensis, ntagnus, nudaster, serratus, ziyidi. COMMENTS: Subgenus Liponycteris. Includes kachhensis; see Felten (1962:175). Formerly included in genus Liponycteris; see Hayman and Hill (1971:15).Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 161, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735306