Molossops mattogrossensis Vieira, 1942 . Argent. Zool. Sao Paulo, 3:430.

TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Mato Grosso, Juruena River, Säo Simao .

DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela, Guyana, C and NE Brazil.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Neoplatymops; see Freeman (1981:155). Listed as a subspecies of Molossops temminckii by Cabrera (1958:117); but see Peterson (1965a:3-5), who considered Neoplatymops a distinct genus. See Willig and Jones (1985, Mammalian Species, 244, as Neoplatymops mattogrossensis).