Cynomops

Cynomops is a genus of Central and South American dog-faced bats in the family Molossidae.^[1] It has sometimes been considered a subgenus of Molossops. It contains the following species:

• Cinnamon dog-faced bat (C. abrasus)
• Freeman's dog-faced bat (C. freemani)
• Greenhall's dog-faced bat (C. greenhalli)
• Cynomops kuizha^[2]
• Cynomops mastivus (C. mastivus)
• Mexican dog-faced bat (C. mexicanus)
• Miller’s dog-faced bat (C. milleri)
• Para dog-faced bat (C. paranus)
• Southern dog-faced bat (C. planirostris)
• Waorani dog-faced bat (C. tonkigui)

Cynomops
Preserved C. abrasus specimen in the Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Molossidae
Genus:	Cynomops Thomas, 1920
Type species
Molossus cerastes Thomas, 1901
Species
See text

Phylogeny

Cynomops C. mexicanus C. freemani C. planirostris C. milleri C. tonkigui C. abrasus C. paranus C. greenhalli C. mastivus

Phylogeny of Cynomops[3][4]

Skull of Cynomops planirostris