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Eumops sp.

Eumops sp.


Family: Molossidae
Order: Chiroptera
Class: Mammalia
Phylum / Division: Chordata
Kingdom: Animalia

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Eumops (mastiff bats or bonneted bats) is a genus of bats 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 , which means bat.

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

Source: Wikipedia, article Eumops sp.. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 17/07/2026.





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Photography ID: 362238
 
Concordia
Entre Ríos
Argentina
10/27/2017
Eduardo Beltrocco


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Record IDDateExact timeCountryProvince / departmentPlaceFilmedPhotographedRecorded vocalObservedHeardWounded or deadNumber of individualsUser or BibliographyDetail
113169530/06/2018ArgentinaEntre RíosInta Estación Experimental, ConcordiaEduardo Beltrocco
113169427/10/2017ArgentinaEntre RíosInta Estación Experimental, ConcordiaEduardo Beltrocco
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Please use the following reference when citing this species account.
EcoRegistros. 2026. Eumops sp. – Species account. Accessed from www.ecoregistros.org on 19/09/2026.