Cynomops milleri

(Osgood, 1914)

Miller's Dog-faced Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Chiroptera
Suborder: Yangochiroptera
Superfamily: Vespertilionoidea
Family: Molossidae
Subfamily: Molossinae
Genus: Cynomops

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Osgood, W.H. 1914-04. Mammals of an expedition across northern Peru. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 10(12):143-185.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2646770

Original name as described

Molossops milleri

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:19652

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=13cb7bd5-c6fc-49b0-b5f3-6f8d1035c465

Type locality

"Yurimaguas, " Department of Loreto, Peru.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil · French Guiana · Guyana · Peru · Suriname · Venezuela

Taxonomy notes

split from paranus (now included under C. planirostris)

Taxonomy notes citation

Moras, L.M., Tavares, V. da C., Pepato, A.R., Santos, F.R. and Gregorin, R. 2016. Reassessment of the evolutionary relationships within the dog-faced bats, genus Cynomops (Chiroptera: Molossidae). Zoologica Scripta 45(5):465-480. doi:10.1111/zsc.12169

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005171

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 2 names and synonyms.

Molossops milleri

Osgood, 1914

Family

Molossidae

Root name

milleri

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

FMNH:Mamm:19652

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

Yurimaguas, Peru

Type locality

Peru: Loreto Department: 5°54′S, 76°4′48″W.

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=13cb7bd5-c6fc-49b0-b5f3-6f8d1035c465

Authority page

183

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2646770

Authority publication

Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series

Name usages

Osgood (1914:183, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2646770) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/20586)
Corbet & Hill (1980:81) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Corbet & Hill (1991:90) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Cynomops milleri:

L. M. Moras, Gregorin, Sattler, & V. da C. Tavares, 2018

Family

Molossidae

Root name

milleri

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

40

Authority publication

Mammalian Biology

Name usages

Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #100000462) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Moras, Gregorin, Sattler & Tavares (2018:40) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34842)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #100000462) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:641) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005171) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/87993512/87993515) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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