Tadarida Rafinesque, 1814

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 240

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scientific name	Tadarida Rafinesque, 1814
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Tadarida Rafinesque, 1814 View in CoL View at ENA . Precis Som., p. 55.

TYPE SPECIES: Cephalotes teniotis Rafinesque, 1814 View in CoL .

SYNONYMS: Austronomus , Nyctinomus, Rhizomops.

COMMENTS: Formerly included Chaerephon , Mops , Mormopterus , and Nyctinomops ; see Freeman (1981:133). Includes Rhizontops, but see Legendre (1984); see also Owen et al. (1990). Mahoney and Walton (1988) regarded Nyctinomus as the prior name for this genus.

References

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

Legendre, S. 1984. Etude odotologique des representants actuels du groupe Tadarida (Chiroptera, Molossidae). Implications phylogeniques, systematiques et zoogeographiques. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 91: 399 - 442.

Mahoney, J. A., and D. W. Walton. 1988. Molossidae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 5: 146 - 150.