Mops midas

(Sundevall, 1843)

Midas 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 : Mops

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Sundevall, C.J. 1843. Om Professor J. Hedenborgs insamlingar af Däggdjur i Nordöstra Africa och Arabien. Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 1842:189-244.

Original name as described

Dysopes Midas

Other common names

Midas Bat · Midas Groove-cheeked Bat · Midas Mops Bat · Sundevall's Free-tailed Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1846.6.2.20, ZMB 535, ZSM 40

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

"Bahr el Abiad [= White Nile river]," Sudan.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Mali? · Senegal · Gambia? · Burkina Faso · Ghana · Togo · Benin · Niger? · Nigeria · Cameroon · Chad · Sudan · Eritrea · Saudi Arabia · Ethiopia · South Sudan · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Kenya · Uganda · Rwanda? · Botswana? · Zambia · Malawi · Mozambique · Zimbabwe · Namibia · South Africa · Madagascar

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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