Mormopterus Peters, 1865

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 237

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Mormopterus Peters, 1865 View in CoL View at ENA . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1865:258.

TYPE SPECIES: Nyctinomus { Mormopterus View in CoL ) jugularis Peters, 1865 View in CoL .

SYNONYMS: Micronomus, Platymops, Sauromys .

COMMENTS: Formerly included in Tadarida ; see Koopman (1975:419-421); but also see Freeman (1981: 133, 160), who included Sauromys and Platymops as subgenera, and also Micronomus .

References

Freeman, P. W. 1981. A multivariate study of the family Molossidae (Mammalia: Chiroptera): Morphology, ecology, evolution. Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 7: 1 - 173.

Koopman, K. F. 1975. Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 154: 353 - 444.

Peters, W. 1865. Note on the systematic position of Platacanthomys lasiurus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1865: 397 - 399.