Molossus molossus (Pallas, 1766)

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 235

Molossus molossus (Pallas, 1766) . Mise. Zool., p. 49 -50.

TYPE LOCALITY: France, Martinique (Lesser Antilles) .

DISTRIBUTION: Sinaloa and Coahuila ( Mexico) to Peru, N Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Guianas; Greater and Lesser Antilles; Margarita Isl ( Venezuela); Curacao and Bonaire ( Netherlands Antilles); Trinidad and Tobago.

SYNONYMS: acuticaudatus, amplexicaudus, aztecus , barnesi , cherriei, crassicaudatus, coibensis , currentium , daulensis, debilis , fortis , fusciventer, Iambi, longicaudatus , major , milleri , moxensis, obscurus , olivaceofuscus, pygmaeus , tropidorhynchus , velox, verrilli .

COMMENTS: Includes fortis , milleri , debilis , and tropidorhynchus ; see Varona (1974:42). Called major by Hall and Kelson (1959:216) and Cabrera (1958: 130) but see Husson (1962:251 -259). Hall (1981:255) included coibensis and aztecus in molossus , but see Dolan (1989). Antillean populations reviewed by Genoways et al. (1981). Includes daulensis, but see Albuja (1982).