Mops bemmeleni
(Jentink, 1879)
Gland-tailed Free-tailed Bat
Taxonomy
Subclass | : Theria |
Infraclass | : Placentalia |
Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
Order | : Chiroptera |
Suborder | : Vespertilioniformes |
Superfamily | : Vespertilionoidea |
Family | : Molossidae |
Subfamily | : Molossinae |
Genus | : Mops |
Subgenus | : Chaerephon |
Species status
Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005
Authority citation
Jentink, F.A. 1879. On a new bat, _Nyctinomus bemmeleni_, from Liberia. Notes from the Leyden Museum 1:125-127.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9631004Original name as described
Nyctinomus Bemmeleni
Other common names
Gland-tailed Wrinkle-lipped Bat · Van Bemmelen's Wrinkle-lipped Bat
Type material
RMNH.MAM.21649.a, RMNH.MAM.21649.b
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.21649.a https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.21649.bType locality
"Liberia."
Biogeographic realm
Afrotropic
Country distribution
Guinea · Sierra Leone · Liberia · Burkina Faso? · Cote d'Ivoire · Cameroon · Central African Republic? · South Sudan · Uganda · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Kenya · Tanzania · Rwanda?
Taxonomy notes
moved from Chaerephon to Mops, although further research is needed to confirm this placement
Taxonomy notes citation
Gregorin, R., & Cirranello, A. (2016). Phylogeny of Molossidae Gervais (Mammalia: Chiroptera) inferred by morphological data. Cladistics, 32(1), 2-35. · Simmons, N. B. and A. L. Cirranello (2020). https://batnames.org/explore.html. Accessed: 10 May 2020. URL: https://batnames.org/explore.html.IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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