Molossus É. Geoffroy St.

Velazco, Paúl M., Voss, Robert S., Fleck, David W. & Simmons, Nancy B., 2021, Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 4: Bats, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2021 (451), pp. 1-201 : 142

Genus Molossus É. Geoffroy St. -Hilaire, 1805

The genus Molossus includes 14 currently recognized species that collectively range from Mexico to southern Argentina (Loureiro et al., 2020). The genus has been reviewed by Miller (1913b), Dolan (1989), and Loureiro et al. (2018a, b, 2019, 2020). Species of Molossus can be distinguished from other molossids by their minute tragus; an antitragus that is constricted at its base; short, rounded ears that arise from the same point on the forehead; smooth (unwrinkled) upper lips; a snout that lacks a prominent median ridge behind the nostrils; a well-developed sagittal crest (better developed in males than in females); an obtusely angled rostrum; arched palate; and divergent upper incisors in line with the canines (Eger, 2008; Gregorin and Cirranello, 2016). All three Molossus species expected to occur in the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluve are represented by specimens collected in our region.