Tadarida brasiliensis (I. Geoffroy, 1824) . Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., 1:343.

TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Parana, Curitiba .

DISTRIBUTION: S Brazil, Argentina, and Chile to Oregon, S Nebraska and Ohio (USA); Greater and Lesser Antilles.

SYNONYMS: antillularum, bahantensis, californiens, constanzae, cynocephala, fuliginosus, intermedia, mexicana, mohavensis, multispinosus, murino, muscula, naso, nasutus, peruanus, rugosus, texana.

COMMENTS: Placed in distinct genus (Rhizontops) by Legendre (1984), but see Freeman (1981:68) and Owen et al. (1990). See Wilkins (1989, Mammalian Species, 331).