Mops (bat)
| Mops | |
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| Mops condylurus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Molossidae |
| Subfamily: | Molossinae |
| Genus: | Mops Lesson, 1842 |
| Type species | |
| Mops indicus Lesson, 1842 | |
| Species | |
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Mops is a genus of bats in the family Molossidae. Molecular sequence data indicates that Mops and Chaerephon are not monophyletic taxa. However, the grouping of Chaerephon minus C. jobimena plus Mops was found to be monophyletic.[1]
Species within this genus are:[2]
Genus Mops - greater mastiff bats
- Subgenus Xiphonycteris
- Spurrell's free-tailed bat, Mops spurrelli
- Dwarf free-tailed bat, Mops nanulus
- Peterson's free-tailed bat, Mops petersoni
- Mops leonis
- Sierra Leone free-tailed bat, Mops brachypterus
- Mops bakarii
- Railer bat, Mops thersites
- Subgenus Mops
- Angolan free-tailed bat, Mops condylurus
- White-bellied free-tailed bat, Mops niveiventer
- Mongalla free-tailed bat, Mops demonstrator
- Malayan free-tailed bat, Mops mops
- Sulawesi free-tailed bat, Mops sarasinorum
- Trevor's free-tailed bat, Mops trevori
- Mops congica
- Midas free-tailed bat, Mops midas
- Niangara free-tailed bat, Mops niangarae
- Medje free-tailed bat, Mops congicus
- Mops leucostigma
References
- Notes
- ↑ Lamb, J. M.; Ralph, T. M. C.; Naidoo, T.; Taylor, P. J.; Ratrimomanarivo, F.; Stanley, W. T.; Goodman, S. M. (June 2011). "Toward a Molecular Phylogeny for the Molossidae (Chiroptera) of the Afro-Malagasy Region". Acta Chiropterologica. 13 (1): 1–16. doi:10.3161/150811011X578589.
- ↑ Simmons, 2005, pp. 441–444; Stanley, 2008
- Bibliography
- Nowak, Ronald (1991). Walker's Mammals of the World, Fifth Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-3970-X.
- Simmons, N.B. (2005). "Order Chiroptera". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 312–529. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- Stanley, W.T. (2008). "A new species of Mops (Molossidae) from Pemba Island, Tanzania". Acta Chiropterologica. 10 (2): 183–192. doi:10.3161/150811008X414773.
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