Mops petersoni

(El-Rayah, 1981)

Peterson's 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 : Xiphonycteris

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

El-Rayah, M.A. 1981-12-11. A new species of bat of the genus Tadarida (family Molossidae) from West Africa. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Occasional Papers 36:1-10.

Original name as described

Tadarida petersoni

Other common names

Peterson's Mops Bat

Type material

ROM:MAM:55813

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/rom/mammals?id=uri-catalog-rom-mammals-55813

Type locality

15 km S Kumba, Cameroon.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Ghana · Cameroon

IUCN Red List status

Near Threatened

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005219

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Tadarida petersoni

(El-Rayah, 1981)

Family

Molossidae

Root name

petersoni

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ROM:MAM:55813

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/rom/mammals?id=uri-catalog-rom-mammals-55813

Authority page

3

Authority publication

Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Occasional Papers

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1991:88) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  2. Happold & Happold (2013:526) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)

Mops petersoni

Honacki, Kinman, & Koeppl, 1982

Family

Molossidae

Root name

petersoni

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

210, 211

Authority publication

Lawrence

Name usages

  1. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:210, 211) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  2. Koopman (1993:236) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)
  3. Koopman (1994:141) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
  4. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #13846) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #13846) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:656) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005219) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  9. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/13846/203829430) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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