Eumops (mastiff batsorbonneted bats) is a genusofbats 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]
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)
^Best, T. L., Kiser, W. M., & Freeman, P. W. (1996). Eumops perotis.
^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.
^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.
^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.
