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Mormopterus
The bat genus Mormopterus is one of 17 genera in the family Molossidae (free-tailed bats). The genus now comprises 18 extant species in four subgenera. The subgenus Mormopterus has seven species occurring in geographically disparate locations: three species from the west Indian Ocean region (Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands and possibly South Africa and Ethiopia), one species from western Indonesia (known from a single specimen from Sumatra) that appears to be related to the above three...
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 7 known species
Moutou's Free-tailed Bat
speciesMormopterus francoismoutoui
Mauritian little mastiff bat
speciesMormopterus acetabulosus
Kalinowski's mastiff bat
speciesMormopterus kalinowskii
Peters's wrinkle-lipped bat
speciesMormopterus jugularis
Incan little mastiff bat
speciesMormopterus phrudus
little goblin bat
speciesMormopterus minutus
Sumatran mastiff bat
speciesMormopterus doriae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 41279.