Trouessart's trident bat

Trouessart's trident bat, Paratriaenops furcula, is a bat endemic to Madagascar. Edouard-Louis Trouessart described it in 1906 as Triaenops furcula, from a series taken at the Grotte de Sarondrana, in Saint-Augustin Bay on the west coast of the island, and the type series is held at the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. In 2009 Benda and Vallo set up the genus Paratriaenops, and the species has been placed there since. It has two close relatives in the genus, Grandidier's trident bat in northern Madagascar and Paulian's trident bat in the Seychelles. The Mammal Diversity Database lists it in the family Rhinonycteridae and notes that the older spelling furculus was corrected to furcula because the name is a noun in apposition.