Mops (bat)

Mops (mastiff bats or free-tailed bats) 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 and Mops was found to be monophyletic when excluding C. jobimena.

Species within this genus are:

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

Sierra Leone free-tailed bat, Mops brachypterus

Bakari's free-tailed bat, 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

Midas free-tailed bat, Mops midas

Niangara free-tailed bat, Mops niangarae

Medje free-tailed bat, Mops congicus

Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat, Mops leucostigma

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Bat genera

Taxa named by René Lesson