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Mops (Xiphonycteris)  Dollman, 1911
Taxonomic Serial No.: 945942

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subgenus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 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  
                                              GenusMops Lesson, 1842  
                                                 SubgenusMops (Xiphonycteris) Dollman, 1911  
    Direct Children:  
                                                    SpeciesMops bakarii Stanley, 2008 – Bakari's Free-tailed Bat 
                                                    SpeciesMops brachypterus (Peters, 1852) – Sierra Leone Free-tailed Bat, Short-winged Free-tailed Bat 
                                                    SpeciesMops nanulus J. A. Allen, 1917 – Dwarf Free-tailed Bat 
                                                    SpeciesMops petersoni (El Rayah, 1981) – Peterson's Free-tailed Bat 
                                                    SpeciesMops spurrelli (Dollman, 1911) – Spurrell's Free-tailed Bat 
                                                    SpeciesMops thersites (Thomas, 1903) – Railer Bat, Railer Free-tailed Bat 
       

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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: Mops (Xiphonycteris)   
       

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