Mormoops

Genus of bats

Mormoops
Temporal range: Holocene
Antillean ghost-faced bat's face by Ernst Haeckel (1904)
(Mormoops blainvillii)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Mormoopidae
Genus: Mormoops
Leach, 1821
Type species
Mormoops blainvillii
Leach, 1821

Mormoops is a genus of bat in the family Mormoopidae.[1] It contains the following species:

  • Antillean ghost-faced bat (Mormoops blainvillii)
  • Giant ghost-faced bat (†Mormoops magna)
  • Ghost-faced bat (Mormoops megalophylla)

References

  1. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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Extant species of family Mormoopidae
Mormoops
  • Antillean ghost-faced bat (M. blainvillii)
  • Ghost-faced bat (M. megalophylla)
Pteronotus
Subgenus Chilonycteris
Macleay's mustached bat (P. macleayii)
Wagner's mustached bat (P. personatus)
Sooty mustached bat (P. quadridens)
Subgenus Phyllodia
Paraguana moustached bat (P. paraguanensis)
Parnell's mustached bat (P. parnellii)
Subgenus Pteronotus
Davy's naked-backed bat (P. davyi)
Big naked-backed bat (P. gymnonotus)
Taxon identifiers
Mormoops
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