Mops mops mops (Blainville 1840
Creators: name: Bumrungsri, Sara
name: Harrison, David L.
name: Satasook, Chutamas
name: Prajukjitr, Amorn
name: Thong-Aree, Siriporn
name: Bates, Paul J. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Mops
Mops mops

description: <i>Mops mops</i> (Blainville, 1840) Malayan free-tailed bat <i>Molossus mops</i> Blainville, 1840: 101, Sumatra. <i>New Material</i> PSU-M 05.9 (field no. SB030508.8), &amp;male;, 8 May 2003, Ai-kading stream, Bala Forest, Hala-Bala Wildlife Sanctuary, Wang Dis- trict, Narathiwat Province, 05°48’9”N, 101°49’15”E, collected by S. Bumrungsri and members of the Hala-Bala bat research team. <i>Taxonomic Notes</i> As only a photograph (Fig. 2f) but not the skin is available, this description of the Thai specimen is based on the skull. The skull, with a condylo-canine length of 18.4 mm (Table 5) is large and has broad zygo- mata. The braincase is inflated anteriorly and the sagittal and lambdoid crests are prominent. The palatal branches of the pre- maxillae are ossified and fused anteriorly; the two small anterior palatal foramina are isolated. The lachrymal projections are prominent. The small ‘first’upper premolar (P 2) is absent, and the canine (C 1) is in con- tact with the ‘second’upper premolar (P 4). The third upper molar (M 3) is reduced and flattened antero-posteriorly, with its second commissure greatly shortened, the meso- style reduced and the metastyle absent. In the lower dentition, the premolars are com- pressed in the toothrow; the first (P 2) is about equal in crown area to the second (P 4). <i>Distribution and Ecological Notes</i> <i>Mops mops</i> is found in peninsular Ma- laysia, Sumatra and Borneo (Corbet and Hill, 1992). The record from Java is doubt- ful (Hill, 1961). This species was captured in the same mist net and almost at the same time as <i>P. stenopterus</i> (see above). <i>Cheiromeles tor-</i> quatus was also collected from this locality. Medway (1969) considered this to be a gre- garious bat that roosts in dead or hollow trees and is often associated with the naked bat, <i>C. torquatus</i>.
description: Published as part of <i>Bumrungsri, Sara, Harrison, David L., Satasook, Chutamas, Prajukjitr, Amorn, Thong-Aree, Siriporn &amp; Bates, Paul J. J., 2006, A review of bat research in Thailand with eight new species records for the country, pp. 325-359 in Acta Chiropterologica 8 (2)</i> on page 351, DOI: 10.3161/1733-5329(2006)8[325:arobri]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/3944593
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