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Eumops

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Description

Eumops (mastiff bats or bonneted bats) is a genus of bats in the family Molossidae. 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.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumops, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2432988	https://www.gbif.org/species/2432988
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40694	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40694

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Chiroptera : Molossidae : Eumops

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Scrotifera	Waddell et al. 1999
order	Chiroptera	Blumenbach 1779
family	Molossidae	Gervais 1856
genus	Eumops	Miller 1906

Common Name

mastiff bat

Scientific Name

Eumops Miller, 1906

Name Published In

Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. vol.19 p.85

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Eumops	genus	belongs to Vespertilionidae	stated without evidence	Sherman, 1952
Eumops	genus	belongs to Molossidae	stated without evidence	Kurten and Anderson, 1980

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

13.8 - 11.8 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Chiroptera)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore (based on Molossidae)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Chiroptera)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

B. Kurten and E. Anderson. 1980. Pleistocene mammals of North America

Common Name(s)

Mastiff-bats, Mastiff Bat

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumops

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Eumops auripendulus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eumops bonariensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eumops chiribaya species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eumops dabbenei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eumops delticus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eumops ferox species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eumops floridanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eumops glaucinus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Wagner's Bonneted Bat	2	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Eumops hansae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eumops maurus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eumops nanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eumops patagonicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eumops perotis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Western Mastiff Bat	5	4.90 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Eumops trumbulli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eumops underwoodi species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Eumops wilsoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1906	Eumops Miller
1932	Molossides Allen p. 257
1952	Eumops Sherman p. 88
1952	Molossides Sherman p. 88
1980	Eumops Kurten and Anderson p. 126
2000	Eumops Rabon et al. p. 58

References

Kurten B., Anderson E. (1980) , Pleistocene mammals of North America, 1-442

Allen G. M. (1932) A Pleistocene bat from Florida, Journal of Mammalogy 13 3, 256-259

Sherman H. B. (1952) A list and bibliography of the mammals of Florida, living and extinct, Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 15 2, 86-126

Rabon D. R., Webster W. D., et al (2000) Pleistocene bats of the southeastern United States, with comments on their hypothetical occurrences in North Carolina, Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 116 1, 57-68

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Gregorin, Renato, 2009: Phylogeny of Eumops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) using morphological data. Acta Chiropterologica, vol. 11, no. 2. 247-258. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Simmons, Nancy B. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Order Chiroptera. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 312-529. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Medina, César E., Renato Gregorin, Horacio Zeballos, Hugo T. Zamora, and Ligiane M. Moras, 2014: A new species of Eumops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from southwestern Peru. Zootaxa, issue 3878, no. 1. 19-36. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 19 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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