Molossus molossus (Pallas, 1766) . Mise. Zool., p. 49 -50.

TYPE LOCALITY: France, Martinique (Lesser Antilles) .

DISTRIBUTION: Sinaloa and Coahuila (Mexico) to Peru, N Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Guianas; Greater and Lesser Antilles; Margarita Isl (Venezuela); Curacao and Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles); Trinidad and Tobago.

SYNONYMS: acuticaudatus, amplexicaudus, aztecus, barnesi, cherriei, crassicaudatus, coibensis, currentium, daulensis, debilis, fortis, fusciventer, Iambi, longicaudatus, major, milleri, moxensis, obscurus, olivaceofuscus, pygmaeus, tropidorhynchus, velox, verrilli .

COMMENTS: Includes fortis, milleri, debilis, and tropidorhynchus; see Varona (1974:42). Called major by Hall and Kelson (1959:216) and Cabrera (1958: 130) but see Husson (1962:251 -259). Hall (1981:255) included coibensis and aztecus in molossus, but see Dolan (1989). Antillean populations reviewed by Genoways et al. (1981). Includes daulensis, but see Albuja (1982).