Mormopterus Peters 1865

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Mormopterus Peters 1865

Mormopterus Peters 1865 , Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1865: 258.

Type Species: Nyctinomus (Mormopterus) jugularis Peters 1865

Synonyms: Micronomus Troughton 1943 .

Species and subspecies: 10 species with 5 subspecies:

Species Mormopterus acetabulosus (Hermann 1804)

Species Mormopterus beccarii Peters 1881

Subspecies Mormopterus beccarii subsp. beccarii Peters 1881

Subspecies Mormopterus beccarii subsp. astrolabiensis Meyer 1899

Species Mormopterus doriae K. Andersen 1907

Species Mormopterus jugularis Peters 1865

Species Mormopterus kalinowskii Thomas 1893

Species Mormopterus loriae Thomas 1897

Subspecies Mormopterus loriae subsp. loriae Thomas 1897

Subspecies Mormopterus loriae subsp. cobourgiana Johnson 1959

Subspecies Mormopterus loriae subsp. ridei Felten 1964

Species Mormopterus minutus Miller 1899

Species Mormopterus norfolkensis (Gray 1840)

Species Mormopterus phrudus Handley 1956

Species Mormopterus planiceps Peters 1866

Discussion: Formerly included in Tadarida but apparently distinct; see Koopman (1975) and Legendre (1984), but also see Freeman (1981). Does not include Platymops and Sauromys ; see Corbet and Hill (1992) and Peterson et al. (1995). Species groups follow Koopman (1994). This genus apparently includes at least seven undescribed species in Australia; see Adams et al. (1988), Churchill (1998), and Menkhorst and Knight (2001). These forms have already been given common names ( Churchill, 1998): Eastern Freetail Bat, Inland Freetail Bat, Little Northern Freetail Bat, Little Western Freetail Bat, Southern Freetail Bat, Western Freetail Bat, and Hairy-nosed Freetail Bat.