''Eumops'' (mastiff bats or bonneted bats) is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

bat Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera.''cheir'', "hand" and πτερόν''pteron'', "wing". With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most ...

s in the family Molossidae. 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.Best, T. L., Kiser, W. M., & Freeman, P. W. (1996). Eumops perotis.

Systematics

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. *'' 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'' (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

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q371577 Bat genera Taxa named by Gerrit Smith Miller Jr.