Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Synapsida
Cladus: Eupelycosauria
Cladus: Sphenacodontia
Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea
Cladus: Therapsida
Cladus: Theriodontia
Cladus: Cynodontia
Cladus: Eucynodontia
Cladus: Probainognathia
Cladus: Prozostrodontia
Cladus: Mammaliaformes
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Trechnotheria
Infraclassis: Zatheria
Supercohors: Theria
Cohors: Eutheria
Infraclassis: Placentalia
Cladus: Boreoeutheria
Superordo: Laurasiatheria
Cladus: Scrotifera
Ordo: Chiroptera
Subordo: Yangochiroptera
Superfamilia: Noctilionoidea
Familia: Mormoopidae
Genus: Mormoops
Species (2 + 1†): M. blainvillei – †M. magna – M. megalophylla
Name
Mormoops Leach, 1821: 74 [conserved name]
Type species: Mormoops blainvillei Leach, 1821, by monotypy.
Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 462 (1957: 3).
Synonyms
Aëllo Leach, 1821: 69
Type species: Aëllo Cuvieri Leach, 1821, by monotypy.
References
Primary references
Leach, W.E. 1821. The Characters of three new Genera of Bats without foliaceous Appendages to the Nose. The Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London 13: 69–72. BHL Reference page.
Leach, W.E. 1821. The Characters of seven Genera of Bats with foliaceous Appendages to the Nose. The Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London 13: 73–82. BHL Reference page.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1957. Opinion 462. Addition to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of the generic name Mormoops Leach, 1821 (Class Mammalia). pp. 1–12 In Hemming, F. (ed.). Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature Volume 16. Part 1. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature: London. 528 pp. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
Smith, J.D. 1972. Systematics of the Chiropteran Family Mormoopidae. Miscellaneous Publication, University of Kansas Museum of Natural History 56: 1–132. BHL Reference page.
Silva Taboada, G. 1974. Fossil Chiroptera from cave deposits in central Cuba, with description of two new species (genera Pteronotus and Mormoops) and the first West Indian record of Mormoops megalophylla. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 19(3): 33–73. Reference page.
Simmons, N.B. & Conway, T.M. 2001. Phylogenetic relationships of mormoopid bats (Chiroptera: Mormoopidae) based on morphological data. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 258: 1–97. hdl: 2246/1608 Open access Reference page.
Simmons, N.B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. Pp. 312–529 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) . Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page.
Dávalos, L.M. 2006. The geography of diversification in the mormoopids (Chiroptera: Mormoopidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 88(1): 101–118. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00605.x Open access Reference page.
Patton, J.L. & Gardner, A.L. [2007] 2008. Family Mormoopidae Saussure, 1860. Pp. 376–384 in Gardner, A.L. (ed.), Mammals of South America. Volume 1. Marsupials, xenarthrans, shrews, and bats. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, Illinois. ISBN 978-0-226-28240-4. Reference page.
Pavan, A. 2019. Family Mormoopidae (Ghost-faced Bats, Naked-backed Bats and Moustached Bats). Pp. 424–443 in Wilson, D.E. & Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.) . Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 9. Bats. Lynx Edicions: Barcelona. ISBN 978-84-16728-19-0 Reference page.
Vernacular names
English: Ghost-faced Bats
Mormoops is a genus of bat in the family Mormoopidae.[1] It contains the following species:
Antillean ghost-faced bat (Mormoops blainvillii)
Giant ghost-faced bat (†Mormoops magna)
Ghost-faced bat (Mormoops megalophylla)
References
Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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