Molossus rufus
É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1805
Common Black Mastiff Bat
Taxonomy
Subclass | : Theria |
Infraclass | : Placentalia |
Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
Order | : Chiroptera |
Suborder | : Vespertilioniformes |
Superfamily | : Vespertilionoidea |
Family | : Molossidae |
Subfamily | : Molossinae |
Genus | : Molossus |
Species status
Authority citation
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. 1805-03-21. Note sur une petite famille de chauve-souris d'Amérique, désignée sous le nom générique de Molossus. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société philomatique de Paris (1791-1805) 3(96):278-279.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5495417Original name as described
Molossus rufus
Other common names
Black Free-tailed Bat · Black Mastiff Bat
Type material
MNHN-ZM-MO-1997-1847 (= MNHN ? 224) (= MNHN A 428)
Type kind
lectotype
Type specimen URI
http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1997-1847Type locality
"Amérique du nord, de Surinam, et principal ement de Caïenne [= North America, Suriname, and chiefly form Cayenne]." Restricted by G. S. Miller, Jr. in 1913 to Cayenne, French Guiana.
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Colombia · Venezuela · Trinidad and Tobago · Guyana · Suriname · French Guiana · Ecuador · Peru · Brazil · Bolivia
Taxonomy notes
previously included M. nigricans and M. fluminensis
Taxonomy notes citation
Loureiro, L. O., Engstrom, M. D., & Lim, B. K. (2020). Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) provide unprecedented resolution of species boundaries, phylogenetic relationships, and genetic diversity in the mastiff bats (Molossus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 143, 106690.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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