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Chaerephon Dobson, 1874
Taxonomic Serial No.: 631400

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
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	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2021

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals
	Subclass	Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897
	Infraclass	Eutheria Gill, 1872
	Order	Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 – morcego, quiróptero, bats
	Suborder	Yangochiroptera Koopman, 1984
	Superfamily	Vespertilionoidea Gray, 1821
	Family	Molossidae Gervais, 1856 – free-tailed bats
	Subfamily	Molossinae Gervais, 1856 – true free-tailed bats
	Genus	Chaerephon Dobson, 1874
		Direct Children:
	Species	Chaerephon aloysiisabaudiae (Festa, 1907) – Duke of Abruzzi's Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon ansorgei (Thomas, 1913) – Ansorge's Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon atsinanana Goodman, Buccas, Naidoo, Ratrimomanarivo, Taylor and Lamb, 2010 – Madagascar Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon bemmeleni (Jentink, 1879) – Gland-tailed Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon bivittatus (Heuglin, 1861) – Spotted Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon bregullae (Felten, 1964) – Fijian Mastiff Bat, Fijian Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon chapini J. A. Allen, 1917 – Chapin's Free-tailed Bat, Pale Free-tailed Bat, Long-crested Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon gallagheri (Harrison, 1975) – Gallagher's Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon jobensis (Miller, 1902) – Northern Mastiff Bat, Greater Northern Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon jobimena Goodman and Cardiff, 2004 – Black-and-red Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon johorensis (Dobson, 1873) – Northern Free-tailed Bat, Lesser Northern Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon leucogaster (A. Grandidier, 1869) – Grandidier's Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon major (Trouessart, 1897) – Lappet-eared Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon nigeriae Thomas, 1913 – Nigerian Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon plicatus (Buchannan, 1800) – Wrinkle-lipped Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon pumilus (Cretzschmar, 1826) – Little Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon pusillus (Miller, 1902) – Seychelles Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon russatus J. A. Allen, 1917 – Russet Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon solomonis Troughton, 1931 – Solomons Mastiff Bat, Solomons Free-tailed Bat
	Species	Chaerephon tomensis (Juste and Ibañez, 1993) – São Tomé Free-tailed Bat

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Don E. Wilson
	Notes:	Smithsonian Institution, MRC 108 Washington DC 20560-0108
	Reference for:	Chaerephon

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	Publication(s):
	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:	Chaerephon

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds.
	Publication Date:	2019
	Article/Chapter Title:
	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
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Chaerephon

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
	Page(s):	xviii + 1207
	Publisher:	Smithsonian Institution Press
	Publication Place:	Washington, DC, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	1-56098-217-9
	Notes:	Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
	Reference for:	Chaerephon

Geographic Information


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Comments


	Comment:	Comments: Formerly included in Tadarida but apparently distinct, see Freeman (1981). Recognized as a subgenus of Tadarida by Hill (1983), Legendre (1984), Corbet and Hill (1992), and Peterson et al. (1995). Keys have been provided by a number of authors; see Taylor (1999) for a critical summary of those used for African species, and Corbet and Hill (1992) for SE Asian species. Also see Bouchard (1998), but note that her key apparently includes errors in the first two couplets (M. Happold, pers. comm....

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