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Molossinae  Gervais, 1856
Taxonomic Serial No.: 945852

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subfamily  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): true free-tailed bats [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2021   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderChiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 – morcego, quiróptero, bats  
                                  SuborderYangochiroptera Koopman, 1984  
                                     SuperfamilyVespertilionoidea Gray, 1821  
                                        FamilyMolossidae Gervais, 1856 – free-tailed bats  
                                           SubfamilyMolossinae Gervais, 1856 – true free-tailed bats  
    Direct Children:  
                                              GenusAustronomus Troughton, 1941  
                                              GenusCabreramops Ibáñez, 1980  
                                              GenusChaerephon Dobson, 1874  
                                              GenusCheiromeles Horsfield, 1824  
                                              GenusCynomops Thomas, 1920  
                                              GenusEumops Miller, 1906 – mastiff-bats 
                                              GenusMicronomus Troughton, 1944  
                                              GenusMolossops Peters, 1866  
                                              GenusMolossus E. Geoffroy, 1805 – velvety free-tailed bats, mastiff bats 
                                              GenusMops Lesson, 1842  
                                              GenusMormopterus Peters, 1865  
                                              GenusMyopterus E. Geoffroy, 1818 – winged-mouse bats, African free-tailed bats 
                                              GenusNeoplatymops Peterson, 1965  
                                              GenusNyctinomops Miller, 1902  
                                              GenusOtomops Thomas, 1913 – giant mastiff bats 
                                              GenusOzimops Reardon, McKenzie and Adams, 2014  
                                              GenusPlatymops Thomas, 1906  
                                              GenusPromops Gervais, 1856  
                                              GenusSauromys Roberts, 1917  
                                              GenusSetirostris Reardon, McKenzie and Adams, 2014  
                                              GenusTadarida Rafinesque, 1814 – guano bats 
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Simmons, Nancy B. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.   
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title: Order Chiroptera   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 312-529   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Molossinae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds.   
  Publication Date: 2019   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 9: Bats   
  Page(s): 1008   
  Publisher: Lynx Edicions   
  Publication Place: Barcelona, Spain   
  ISBN/ISSN: 978-84-16728190   
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  Reference for: Molossinae   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Comments: Equivalent to Molossidae sensu Freeman (1981), Legendre (1984), Koopman (1993, 1994), and Peterson et al. (1995). Some recent authors (e.g., Pavlinov et al., 1995b) have followed Legendre (1984) in subdividing this group into three subfamilies, but confusion concerning intergeneric relationships leads me to reject any such arrangement pending a thorough phylogenetic analysis. A key to Brazilian species was provided by Gregorin and Taddei (2002)  
 

 

    


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