African Free-tailed Bats

Mops

Mops (mastiff bats or free-tailed bats) is a genus of bats in the family Molossidae. Molecular sequence data indicates that Mops and Chaerephon are not monophyletic taxa. However, the grouping of Chaerephon and Mops was found to be monophyletic when excluding C. jobimena.

Species within this genus are:

Genus Mops - greater mastiff bats

Duke of Abruzzi's free-tailed bat, Mops aloysiisabaudiae

Ansorge's free-tailed bat, Mops ansorgei

Mops atsinanana

Bakari's free-tailed bat, Mops bakarii

Gland-tailed free-tailed bat, Mops bemmeleni

Spotted free-tailed bat, Mops bivittatus

Sierra Leone free-tailed bat, Mops brachypterus

Fijian mastiff bat, Mops bregullae

Chapin's free-tailed bat, Mops chapini

Angolan free-tailed bat, Mops condylurus

Medje free-tailed bat, Mops congicus

Mongalla free-tailed bat, Mops demonstrator

Gallagher's free-tailed bat, Mops gallagheri

Northern freetail bat, Mops jobensis

Mops jobimena

Northern free-tailed bat, Mops johorensis

Grandidier's free-tailed bat, Mops leucogaster

Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat, Mops leucostigma

Lappet-eared free-tailed bat, Mops major

Midas free-tailed bat, Mops midas

Malayan free-tailed bat, Mops mops

Dwarf free-tailed bat, Mops nanulus

Niangara free-tailed bat, Mops niangarae

Nigerian free-tailed bat Mops nigeriae

White-bellied free-tailed bat, Mops niveiventer

Peterson's free-tailed bat, Mops petersoni

Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat, Mops plicatus

Little free-tailed bat, Mops pumilus

Mops pusillus

Russet free-tailed bat, Mops russatus

Sulawesi free-tailed bat, Mops sarasinorum

Solomons mastiff bat, Mops solomonis

Spurrell's free-tailed bat, Mops spurrelli

Railer bat, Mops thersites

São Tomé free-tailed bat, Mops tomensis

Trevor's free-tailed bat, Mops trevori