Molossinae Gervais 1856

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Molossidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 432-451 : 432

Molossinae Gervais 1856

Molossinae Gervais 1856 , in: Comte de Castelnau, Exped. Partes Cen. Am. Sud., Zool. (Sec. 7), Vol. 1, pt. 2 (Mammiferes): 53 footnote.

Synonyms: Cheiromelinae Legendre 1984 ; Tadaridinae Legendre 1984 .

Genera: 15 genera with 99 species:

Genus Chaerephon Dobson 1874 (18 species with 13 subspecies)

Genus Cheiromeles Horsfield 1824 (2 species with 3 subspecies)

Genus Cynomops Thomas 1920 (5 species with 4 subspecies)

Genus Eumops Miller 1906 (10 species with 14 subspecies)

Genus Molossops Peters 1865 (4 species with 3 subspecies)

Genus Molossus E. Geoffroy 1805 (8 species with 12 subspecies)

Genus Mops Lesson 1842 (15 species with 10 subspecies)

Genus Mormopterus Peters 1865 (10 species with 5 subspecies)

Genus Myopterus E. Geoffroy 1818 (2 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Nyctinomops Miller 1902 (4 species with 5 subspecies)

Genus Otomops Thomas 1913 (7 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Platymops Thomas 1906 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Promops Gervais 1856 (2 species with 8 subspecies)

Genus Sauromys Roberts 1917 (1 species with 5 subspecies)

Genus Tadarida Rafinesque 1814 (10 species with 20 subspecies)

Discussion: Equivalent to Molossidae sensu Freeman (1981) , Legendre (1984), Koopman (1993, 1994), and Peterson et al. (1995). Some recent authors (e.g., Pavlinov et al., 1995 b) have followed Legendre (1984) in subdividing this group into three subfamilies, but confusion concerning intergeneric relationships leads me to reject any such arrangement pending a thorough phylogenetic analysis. A key to Brazilian species was provided by Gregorin and Taddei (2002).