Nyctinomops laticaudatus
(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1805)
Broad-eared Free-tailed Bat
Distribution :
Tamaulipas and Jalisco (Mexico) to Venezuela and the Guianas, NW Peru, Bolivia, N Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil; Trinidad; Cuba
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Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Chiroptera |
| Suborder | : Yangochiroptera |
| Superfamily | : Vespertilionoidea |
| Family | : Molossidae |
| Subfamily | : Molossinae |
| Genus | : Nyctinomops |
Species status
Authority citation
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. 1805-03-21. Note sur une petite famille de chauve-souris d'Amérique, désignée sous le nom générique de Molossus. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société philomatique de Paris (1791-1805) 3(96):278-279.
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Original name as described
Molossus laticaudatus
Other common names
Broad-eared Bat · Broad-tailed Bat · Espirito Santo Free-tailed Bat · Geoffroy's Free-tailed Bat · Guaraní Free-tailed Bat
Type locality
Asunción, Paraguay.
Biogeographic realm
Nearctic · Neotropic
Country distribution
Argentina · Belize · Bolivia · Brazil · Colombia · Costa Rica · Cuba · Ecuador · El Salvador · French Guiana · Guatemala · Guyana · Honduras · Mexico · Panama · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago · Uruguay · Venezuela
Taxonomy notes
includes the recently described mbopicuare, but likely still represents a species complex
Taxonomy notes citation
Barquez, R.M., Tomasco, I.H., Sánchez, R.T., Boero, L., Rodriguez, A.D. and Díaz, M.M. 2023. A new species of bat in the genus Nyctinomops Miller, 1902 (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from Misiones, Argentina. Journal of Mammalogy 104(5):1062-1071. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyad040 · Moras, L.M., Tavares, V. da C., De Almeida, T.G., Dos Santos Júnior, J.E. and Gregorin, R. 2026. The Nyctinomops laticaudatus complex (Chiroptera: Molossidae) as revealed by a molecular phylogeny of the genus. Systematics and Biodiversity 24(2):2678334. doi:10.1080/14772000.2026.2678334
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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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: 34 names and synonyms.
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