Eumops

Eumops (mastiff bats or bonneted bats) is a genus of bats in the family Molossidae.[1] A total of 17 species of this genus have been described. The name "Eumops" comes from the Greek prefix "Eu-", meaning "good" or "true," and the Malayan word "mops," which means bat.[2]

Eumops
Florida bonneted bat (Eumops floridanus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Molossidae
Subfamily: Molossinae
Genus: Eumops
Miller, 1906
Species

17, see below.

Systematics
Eumops
 

E. hansae

 
 
bonariensis group
 

E. delticus

 
 

E. patagonicus

 
 
 

E. bonariensis

 
 

E. nanus

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
glaucinus group
 
 
 

E. dabbenei

 
 

E. underwoodi

 
 
 
 

E. glaucinus

 
 
 

E. ferox*

 
 
 

E. ferox*

 
 

E. floridanus

 
 
 
 
 
 

E. wilsoni

 
 
 
perotis group
 

E. chimaera

 
 
 

E. perotis

 
 

E. trumbulli

 
 
 
 
 
 
auripendulus group
 

E. chiribaya

 
 
 

E. maurus

 
 

E. auripendulus

 
 
 
 
 
 
Internal relationship of Eumops based on 2016 study[3](*E. ferox recovered as paraphyletic, possibly because of incomplete lineage sorting)

Species

The following are the seventeen species of Eumops. Eumops chimaera is the most recently described species of this genus, having been first described in 2016. E. wilsoni was described first in 2009 by Baker and colleagues.[4]

  • E. auripendulus (Shaw, 1800) — black bonneted bat (Shaw's mastiff bat)
  • E. bonariensis (Peters, 1874) — dwarf bonneted bat (Peters' mastiff bat)
  • Eumops chimaera (Gregorin, Moras, Acosta, Vasconcellos, Poma, Rodrigues dos Santos & Paca, 2016)
  • E. chiribaya[5] (Medina, Gregorin, Zeballos, Zamora, and Moras, 2014) — Chiribaya's bonneted bat
  • E. dabbenei (Thomas, 1914) — big bonneted bat (Dabbene's mastiff bat)
  • E. delticus (Thomas, 1923)
  • E. ferox (Gundlach, 1861)
  • E. floridanus (Allen, 1932) — Florida bonneted bat
  • E. glaucinus (Wagner, 1843) — Wagner's bonneted bat
  • E. hansae (Sanborn, 1932) — Sanborn's bonneted bat (Hansa bonneted bat)
  • E. maurus (Thomas, 1901) — Guianan bonneted bat (Thomas's bonneted bat)
  • E. nanus (Miller, 1900)
  • E. patagonicus (Thomas, 1924) — Patagonian bonneted bat
  • E. perotis (Schinz, 1820) — western mastiff bat
  • E. trumbulli (Thomas, 1901) — Colombian bonneted bat
  • E. underwoodi (Goodwin, 1974) — Underwood's bonneted bat
  • E. wilsoni (Baker, McDonough, Swier, Larsen, Carrera, and Ammerman, 2009) — Wilson's bonneted bat
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References
  1. Simmons, N.B. (2005). "Order Chiroptera". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. Best, T. L., Kiser, W. M., & Freeman, P. W. (1996). Eumops perotis.
  3. Gregorin, Renato; Moras, Ligiane Martins; Acosta, Luis Hernán; Vasconcellos, Karina Lobão; Poma, José Luis; Dos Santos, Fabrício Rodrigues; Paca, Roberto Carlos (2016). "A new species of Eumops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from southeastern Brazil and Bolivia". Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde. 81 (3): 235. doi:10.1016/j.mambio.2016.01.002.
  4. Baker, R. J.; McDonough, M. M.; Swier, V. J.; Larsen, P. A.; Carrera, J. P.; Ammerman, L. K. (2009). "New Species of Bonneted Bat, Genus Eumops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from the Lowlands of Western Ecuador and Peru". Acta Chiropterologica. 11 (1): 1–13. doi:10.3161/150811009X465659.
  5. Medina, C. R.; Gregorin, R.; Zeballos, H.; Zamora, H. T.; Moras, L. M. (2014). "A new species of Eumops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from southwestern Peru". Zootaxa. 3878 (1): 19–36. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3878.1.2.
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