Eumops

Eumops (mastiff bats or bonneted bats) is a genus of bats in the family Molossidae.^[1] A total of 17 species of this genus have been described. The name "Eumops" comes from the Greek prefix "Eu-", meaning "good" or "true," and the Malayan word "mops," which means bat.^[2]

Eumops
Florida bonneted bat (Eumops floridanus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Molossidae
Subfamily:	Molossinae
Genus:	Eumops Miller, 1906
Type species
Molossus californicus Merriam, 1890
Species
17, see below.

Systematics

Eumops E. hansae bonariensis group E. delticus E. patagonicus E. bonariensis E. nanus glaucinus group E. dabbenei E. underwoodi E. glaucinus E. ferox* E. ferox* E. floridanus E. wilsoni perotis group E. chimaera E. perotis E. trumbulli auripendulus group E. chiribaya E. maurus E. auripendulus

Internal relationship of Eumops based on 2016 study[3](*E. ferox recovered as paraphyletic, possibly because of incomplete lineage sorting)

Species

The following are the seventeen species of Eumops. Eumops chimaera is the most recently described species of this genus, having been first described in 2016. E. wilsoni was described first in 2009 by Baker and colleagues.^[4]

• E. auripendulus (Shaw, 1800) — black bonneted bat (Shaw's mastiff bat)
• E. bonariensis (Peters, 1874) — dwarf bonneted bat (Peters' mastiff bat)
• Eumops chimaera (Gregorin, Moras, Acosta, Vasconcellos, Poma, Rodrigues dos Santos & Paca, 2016)
• E. chiribaya^[5] (Medina, Gregorin, Zeballos, Zamora, and Moras, 2014) — Chiribaya's bonneted bat
• E. dabbenei (Thomas, 1914) — big bonneted bat (Dabbene's mastiff bat)
• E. delticus (Thomas, 1923)
• E. ferox (Gundlach, 1861)
• E. floridanus (Allen, 1932) — Florida bonneted bat
• E. glaucinus (Wagner, 1843) — Wagner's bonneted bat
• E. hansae (Sanborn, 1932) — Sanborn's bonneted bat (Hansa bonneted bat)
• E. maurus (Thomas, 1901) — Guianan bonneted bat (Thomas's bonneted bat)
• E. nanus (Miller, 1900)
• E. patagonicus (Thomas, 1924) — Patagonian bonneted bat
• E. perotis (Schinz, 1820) — western mastiff bat
• E. trumbulli (Thomas, 1901) — Colombian bonneted bat
• E. underwoodi (Goodwin, 1974) — Underwood's bonneted bat
• E. wilsoni (Baker, McDonough, Swier, Larsen, Carrera, and Ammerman, 2009) — Wilson's bonneted bat