Nyctinomops macrotis

(J. E. Gray, 1839)

Big Free-tailed Bat

Side view of female on tree trunk, mouth widely open
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Location:USA, AZ, Coconino Co., FlagstaffDate taken:Jan 1, 1985

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 891

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Gray, J.E. 1839-09-01. Descriptions of some Mammalia discovered in Cuba by W. S. MacLeay, Esq. With some account of their habits, extracted from Mr. MacLeay's notes. Annals of Natural History (1)4(21):1-7.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42895718

Original name as described

Nyctinomus macrotis

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:2003.54

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/2235b882-d6c5-4961-8df0-1a25d26dc386 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/9690db78-b91a-4dcb-bc43-46db38dfbd03

Type locality

"Cuba."

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic · Neotropic

Country distribution

Canada · United States · Mexico · Guatemala · Cuba · Jamaica · Haiti · Dominican Republic · Colombia · Venezuela · Guyana · Suriname · French Guiana? · Ecuador · Peru · Bolivia · Brazil · Paraguay · Uruguay · Argentina

Subregion distribution

USA(TX, CA, NV, UT, AZ, NM, CO, OK, MN?, KS?, IA?)

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005237

Country distribution map

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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: 18 names and synonyms.

Nyctinomus macrotis

(J. E. Gray, 1839)

Family

Molossidae

Root name

macrotis

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:2003.54

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/2235b882-d6c5-4961-8df0-1a25d26dc386 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/9690db78-b91a-4dcb-bc43-46db38dfbd03

Authority page

5

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42895718

Authority publication

Annals of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Gray (1839:5, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42895718) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/20193)
  2. Murray (1866:347, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580343) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)
  3. Fitzinger (1870:60, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6704463) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37104)
  4. Dobson (1878:435, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37695501) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34111)
  5. True (1885:603, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7306397) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35039)
  6. Flower & Lydekker (1891:670, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46965885) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34115)
  7. Allen (1911:245, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2815329) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67867)
  8. Weber (1928:158) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69650)

Dysopes auritus

(J. A. Wagner, 1843)

Family

Molossidae

Root name

auritus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

NMW (unnumbered)

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

368

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13703399

Authority publication

Archiv für Naturgeschichte

Name usages

  1. Wagner (1847:204, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11387654) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38237)
  2. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Dysopes macrotis

(A. Murray, 1866)

Family

Molossidae

Root name

macrotis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

347

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580343

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Murray (1866:347, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580343) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)

Nyctinomus auritus

(W. C. H. Peters, 1866)

Family

Molossidae

Root name

auritus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

573 (footnote)

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35169034

Authority publication

Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin

Name usages

  1. Peters (1866:573 (footnote), https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35169034) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/66062)
  2. Fitzinger (1870:54, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6704457) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37104)

Nyctinomus megalotis

(Dobson, 1877)

Family

Molossidae

Root name

megalotis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH (unnumbered)

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

728

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29099987

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

  1. Dobson (1878:434, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37695500) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34111)
  2. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Nyctinomus depressus

(H. L. Ward, 1891)

Family

Molossidae

Root name

depressus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

CNMA 9246

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

747

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41208271

Authority publication

The American Naturalist

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Nyctinomus macrotis nevadensis

(H. Allen, 1894)

Family

Molossidae

Root name

nevadensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:15178 (= USNM:MAMM:A36569)

Type kind

lectotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3fb8cf0a7-bdf1-442f-b956-28929f57ce6d

Authority page

171

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7362573

Authority publication

Bulletin of the United States National Museum

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Promops affinis

(J. A. Allen, 1900)

Family

Molossidae

Root name

affinis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

AMNH M-15109

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/amnh/mammals?id=urn-catalog-amnh-mammals-m-15109

Authority page

91

Authority publication

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Allen (1900:91) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15962)
  2. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Promops depressus

(J. A. Allen, 1900)

Family

Molossidae

Root name

depressus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

91

Authority publication

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Name usages

Allen (1900:91) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15962)

Nyctinomops macrotis

Trouessart, 1904

Family

Molossidae

Root name

macrotis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

103

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53422932

Authority publication

Berlin

Name usages

  1. Trouessart (1904:103, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53422932) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
  2. Freeman (1981:163, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2787025) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/1399)
  3. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:213) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  4. Legendre (1984:427, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41303864) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/11384)
  5. Koopman (1993:239) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)
  6. Koopman (1994:143) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
  7. Anderson (1997:293) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5773)
  8. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  9. Godinez, González-Ruiz & Ramírez-Pulido (2011:32) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/25947)
  10. Ruiz-Gutiérrez, López-Damián, Arroyo-Cabrales, Chávez Catalán & Flores Sánchez (2011:1026) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/25800)
  11. Bradley, Ammerman, Baker, Bradley, Cook, Dowler, Jones, Schmidly, Stangl, Van Den Bussche & Würsig (2014:10, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57785988) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19157)
  12. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #14996) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  13. Villalobos-Chaves, González-Quirós, Lara-Hernández & Rodríguez-Herrera (2018:806) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38472)
  14. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #14996) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  15. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:638) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  16. Turcios-Casco, LaVal, Wilson & Ávila-Palma (2021:9) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/55682)
  17. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005237) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  18. Schmidly, Bradley, Yancey & Bradley (2024:9) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67259)
  19. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/14996/97207443) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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