Otomops
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| Otomops | |
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| Wroughton's free-tailed bat (Otomops wroughtoni) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Molossidae |
| Genus: | Otomops Thomas, 1913 |
| Type species | |
| Nyctinomus wroughtonii Thomas, 1913 | |
Otomops is a genus of bat in the family Molossidae. Molecular sequence data supports it as a monophyletic taxon, although not a number of other molossid genera.[1]
Otomops contains the following species:
- O. formosus, Javan mastiff bat
- O. harrisoni, Harrison's large-eared giant mastiff bat
- O. johnstonei, Johnstone's mastiff bat
- O. madagascariensis, Madagascar free-tailed bat
- O. martiensseni, large-eared free-tailed bat
- O. papuensis, big-eared mastiff bat
- O. secundus, mantled mastiff bat
- O. wroughtoni, Wroughton's free-tailed bat
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