Ectophylla H. Allen 1892 Ectophylla H. Allen 1892, Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., 15: 441. Type Species: Ectophylla alba H. Allen 1892 Species and subspecies: 1 species: Species Ectophylla alba H. Allen 1892 Discussion: Subtribe Ectophyllina. Some authors have treated Mesophylla as a junior synonym; see Goodwin and Greenhall (1962), Simmons and Voss (1998), and Wetterer et al. (2000). However, relationships of these taxa remain unclear (see Owen [1987] and Baker et al. [2000]), so Mesophylla is treated here as a distinct genus pending further study.

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Phyllostomidae, pp. 395-426 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 421, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519