Otomops
| Otomops | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Wroughton's free-tailed bat (Otomops wroughtoni) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Molossidae |
| Genus: | Otomops Thomas, 1913 |
| Type species | |
| Nyctinomus wroughtonii Thomas, 1913 | |
Otomops is a genus of bat in the family Molossidae. Molecular sequence data supports it as a monophyletic taxon, although not a number of other molossid genera.[1]
Otomops contains the following species:
- O. formosus, Javan mastiff bat
- O. johnstonei, Johnstone's mastiff bat
- O. madagascariensis, Madagascar free-tailed bat
- O. martiensseni, large-eared free-tailed bat
- O. papuensis, big-eared mastiff bat
- O. secundus, mantled mastiff bat
- O. wroughtoni, Wroughton's free-tailed bat
References
- ↑ 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.
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