Triaenops goodmani

Triaenops goodmani Temporal range: Early Holocene
A mandible.
Conservation status
Extinct[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Rhinonycteridae
Genus:	Triaenops
Species:	†T. goodmani
Binomial name
†Triaenops goodmani Samonds, 2007
Collection locality of Triaenops goodmani (in brown) and distribution of living species of Triaenops (green—T. menamena; blue—T. afer; red—T. persicus; yellow—T. persicus and T. parvus.[2]

Triaenops goodmani is an extinct bat from Madagascar in the genus Triaenops. It is known from three lower jaws collected in a cave at Anjohibe in 1996, and described as a new species in 2007. The material is at most 10,000 years old. A bat humerus (upper arm bone) from the same site could not be identified as either T. goodmani or the living T. menamena. T. goodmani is identifiable as a member of Triaenops or the related genus Paratriaenops by a number of features of the teeth, such as the single-cusped, canine-like fourth premolar and the presence of a gap between the entoconid and hypoconulid cusps on the first two molars. T. goodmani is larger than the living species of Triaenops and Paratriaenops on Madagascar, and on the first molar the protoconid cusp is only slightly higher than the hypoconid, not much higher as in the other species.