Combinations

• Rhinonycterina Gray, 1866 : 81 [described as subtribe]
• Rhinonycterini: McKenna & Bell, 1997: 306 [elevate to tribe rank]
• Rhinonycterinae: McKenna & Bell, 1997: 306 [elevate to subfamily rank]
• Rhinonycteridae: Foley, Thong, Soisook, Goodman, Armstrong, Jacobs, Puechmaille & Teeling, 2015: 319 [elevate to family rank]

Synonyms

• Triaenopini Benda & Vallo, 2009: 33 [synonymysed by Foley et al., 2015: 319]

Primary references

• Gray J.E. 1866. A revision of the genera of Rhinolophidae, or horseshoe bats. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 81–83. BHL Reference page. 
• McKenna, M.C. & Bell, S.K. 1997. Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. i-xii + 631 p.

• Benda, P. & Vallo, P. 2009. Taxonomic revision of the genus Triaenops (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) with description of a new species from southern Arabia and definitions of a new genus and tribe. Folia Zoologica 58: 1–45. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• Foley, N.M., Thong, V.D., Soisook, P., Goodman, S.M., Armstrong, K.N., Jacobs, D.S., Puechmaille, S.J. & Teeling, E.C. 2015. How and Why Overcome the Impediments to Resolution: Lessons from rhinolophid and hipposiderid Bats. Molecular Biology and Evolution 32(2): 313–333. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu329 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Armstrong, K.N., Goodman, S.M., Benda, P. & Hand, S.J. 2016. A common name for the bat family Rhinonycteridae—the Trident Bats. Zootaxa 4179(1): 115–117. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4179.1.7. Reference page. 
• Wilson, L.A.B., Hand, S,J., López-Aguirre, C., Archer, M., Black, K.H., Beck, R.M.D., Armstrong, K.N. & Roe, S. 2016. Cranial shape variation and phylogenetic relationships of extinct and extant Old World leaf-nosed bats. Alcheringa 40(4): 509–524 . DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2016.1196434