Mops (bat)

Mops
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
See text

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 brachyptera
  • 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

1. 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.
2. 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.