Eumops dabbenei

O. Thomas, 1914

Big Bonneted Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Molossidae
Subfamily : Molossinae
Genus : Eumops

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1914-05-01. New Callicebus and Eumops from S. America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)13(77):480-481.

Original name as described

Eumops dabbenei

Other common names

Great Bonneted Bat · Dabbene's Bonneted Bat · Dabbene's Mastiff Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1914.4.4.8

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Chaco, Argentina." Restricted by R. M. Barquez and colleagues in 1999 to "Argentina, Chaco, Tartagal."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia · Venezuela · Brazil · Paraguay · Argentina

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Country distribution map

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