Eumops | |
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Florida bonneted bat (Eumops floridanus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Molossidae |
Subfamily: | Molossinae |
Genus: | Eumops Miller, 1906 |
Type species | |
Molossus californicus Merriam, 1890
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Species | |
17, see below. |
Eumops (mastiff bats or bonneted bats) is a genus of bats in the family Molossidae.[1] A total of 17 species of this genus have been described. The name "Eumops" comes from the Greek prefix "Eu-", meaning "good" or "true," and the Malayan word "mops," which means bat.[2]
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Internal relationship of Eumops based on 2016 study[3](*E. ferox recovered as paraphyletic, possibly because of incomplete lineage sorting) |
The following are the seventeen species of Eumops. Eumops chimaera is the most recently described species of this genus, having been first described in 2016. E. wilsoni was described first in 2009 by Baker and colleagues.[4]