Mops mops, 1840

Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu & John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, PLoS ONE 12 (7), pp. 1-65 : 16

Mops mops [Blainville, 1840]

Dysopesmops Blainville, 1840: 101 ; Sumatra, INDONESIA (Collector unknown; Type unknown) [ 108].

Mops mops [ 8].

Common English name: Sunda Free-tailed Bat

Barcode Index Number: BOLD:AAX4379 (1 DNA barcode from Peninsular Malaysia;

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IUCN status: Near Threatened

Recorded at: Pahang: Krau Wildlife Reserve [ 4, 11, 41]; Selangor: Bukit Kutu Wildlife Reserve [ 51]; Kedah: Ulu Muda Forest Reserve [ 57].

M. mops is a forest inhabitant and roosts in dead or hollowed trees, often with Cheiromeles torquatus [ 11, 14, 23].

Figures

Fig 3. Neighbour-joining tree showing all available DNA barcodes for species in families Emballonuridae, Megadermatidae, Molossidae and Nycteridae reported from Peninsular Malaysia. The percentage of pseudoreplicate trees (±70%) in which the DNA barcodes clustered together in the bootstrap test (500 pseudoreplicates) are shown above the branches. Abbreviation as follows: PM = Peninsular Malaysia, VN = Vietnam, BN = Borneo (including Sabah & Sarawak of East Malaysia, Brunei and Kalimantan Indonesia), TH = Thailand, LA = Laos, SM = Sumatera Indonesia,CH = China. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179555.g003