Molossops Peters 1865

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 : 439

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scientific name	Molossops Peters 1865
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Treatment

Molossops Peters 1865 , Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1865: 575.

Type Species: Dysopes temminckii Burmeister 1854

Synonyms: Dysopes Burmeister 1854 .

Species and subspecies: 4 species with 3 subspecies in 3 subgenera:

Subgenus Molossops (Molossops) Peters 1865

Subgenus Molossops (Cabreramops) Ibáñez 1980

Subgenus Molossops (Neoplatymops) Peterson 1965

Species Molossops (Cabreramops) aequatorianus Cabrera 1917

Species Molossops (Neoplatymops) mattogrossensis Vieira 1942

Species Molossops (Molossops) neglectus Williams and Genoways 1980

Species Molossops (Molossops) temminckii (Burmeister 1854)

Subspecies Molossops (Molossops) temminckii subsp. temminckii Burmeister 1854

Subspecies Molossops (Molossops) temminckii subsp. griseiventer Sanborn 1941

Subspecies Molossops (Molossops) temminckii subsp. sylvia Thomas 1924

Discussion: Includes Cabreramops and Neoplatymops with Molossops as subgenera. Cynomops is here treated as distinct at the genus level following Barquez et al. (1993), Peterson et al. (1995), Solari et al. (1999), Reid et al. (2000), Barquez and Diaz (2001), and Peters et al. (2002); also see Gardner (1977) and Freeman (1981).