''Otomops'' is a genus of
bat in the family
Molossidae. Molecular sequence data supports it as a
monophyletic
In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic ...
taxon, although not a number of other molossid genera.
''Otomops'' contains the following species:
* ''O. formosus'',
Javan mastiff bat
* ''O. harrisoni'',
Harrison's large-eared giant mastiff bat
* ''O. johnstonei'',
Johnstone's mastiff bat
* ''O. madagascariensis'',
Madagascar free-tailed bat
* ''O. martiensseni'',
large-eared free-tailed bat
* ''O. papuensis'',
big-eared mastiff bat
* ''O. secundus'',
mantled mastiff bat
* ''O. wroughtoni'',
Wroughton's free-tailed bat
Wroughton's free-tailed bat (''Otomops wroughtoni'') is a free-tailed bat formerly considered to be confined to the Western Ghats area of India, though it has also recently been discovered in northeast India and in a remote part of Cambodi ...
References
Bat genera
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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