Molossidae Gervais 1856

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Molossidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 432-451 : 432

Molossidae Gervais 1856

Molossidae Gervais 1856 , in: Comte de Castelnau, Exped. Partes Cen. Am. Sud., Zool. (Sec. 7), Vol. 1, pt. 2 (Mammiferes): 53 footnote.

Genera: 16 genera with 100 species in 2 subfamilies:

Subfamily Tomopeatinae Miller 1907

Genus Tomopeas Miller 1900 (1 species)

Subfamily Molossinae Gervais 1856

Genus Chaerephon Dobson 1874 (18 species with 13 subspecies)

Genus Cheiromeles Horsfield 1824 (2 species with 3 subspecies)

Genus Cynomops Thomas 1920 (5 species with 4 subspecies)

Genus Eumops Miller 1906 (10 species with 14 subspecies)

Genus Molossops Peters 1865 (4 species with 3 subspecies)

Genus Molossus E. Geoffroy 1805 (8 species with 12 subspecies)

Genus Mops Lesson 1842 (15 species with 10 subspecies)

Genus Mormopterus Peters 1865 (10 species with 5 subspecies)

Genus Myopterus E. Geoffroy 1818 (2 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Nyctinomops Miller 1902 (4 species with 5 subspecies)

Genus Otomops Thomas 1913 (7 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Platymops Thomas 1906 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Promops Gervais 1856 (2 species with 8 subspecies)

Genus Sauromys Roberts 1917 (1 species with 5 subspecies)

Genus Tadarida Rafinesque 1814 (10 species with 20 subspecies)

Discussion: Reviewed by Freeman (1981) and Legendre (1984). Includes Tomopeatinae ; see Barkley (1984), Sudman et al. (1994), Simmons (1998), and Simmons and Geisler (1998). South American species reviewed by Jones and Hood (1993).