page_title: List of bats
section_title: Molossidae
hierarchical_section_title: List of bats / Suborder Yangochiroptera / Superfamily Vespertilionoidea / Molossidae
caption_attribution_description: English: Wroughton's Free-tailed Bat photographed from North Karnataka
context_page_description: This list contains the placental mammals in the order Chiroptera. There are an estimated 1,300 species of bat.
context_section_description: free-tailed bats
  Subfamily Molossinae
  Genus Chaerephon
  Duke of Abruzzi's free-tailed bat (Chaerephon aloysiisabaudiae)
  Ansorge's free-tailed bat (Chaerephon ansorgei)
  Chaerephon atsinanana
  Gland-tailed free-tailed bat (Chaerephon bemmeleni)
  Spotted free-tailed bat (Chaerephon bivittatus)
  Fijian mastiff bat (Chaerephon bregullae)
  Chapin's free-tailed bat (Chaerephon chapini)
  Gallagher's free-tailed bat (Chaerephon gallagheri)
  Northern freetail bat (Chaerephon jobensis)
  Black and red free-tailed bat (Chaerephon jobimena)
  Northern free-tailed bat (Chaerephon johorensis)
  Lappet-eared free-tailed bat (Chaerephon major)
  Nigerian free-tailed bat (Chaerephon nigeriae)
  Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat (Chaerephon plicatus)
  Little free-tailed bat (Chaerephon pumilus)
  Russet free-tailed bat (Chaerephon russatus)
  Shortridge's free-tailed bat (Chaerephon shortridgei)
  Solomons mastiff bat (Chaerephon solomonis)
  São Tomé free-tailed bat (Chaerephon tomensis)
  Genus Cheiromeles
  Lesser naked bat (Cheiromeles parvidens)
  Hairless bat (Cheiromeles torquatus)
  Genus Cynomops
  Cinnamon dog-faced bat (Cynomops abrasus)
  Greenhall's dog-faced bat (Cynomops greenhalli)
  Mexican dog-faced bat (Cynomops mexicanus)
  Cynomops milleri
  Para dog-faced bat (Cynomops paranus)
  Southern dog-faced bat (Cynomops planirostris)
  Genus Eumops
  Black bonneted bat (Eumops auripendulus)
  Dwarf bonneted bat (Eumops bonariensis)
  Big bonneted bat (Eumops dabbenei)
  Eumops delticus
  Florida bonneted bat (Eumops floridanus)
  Wagner's bonneted bat (Eumops glaucinus)
  Sanborn's bonneted bat (Eumops hansae)
  Guianan bonneted bat (Eumops maurus)
  Eumops nanus
  Patagonian bonneted bat (Eumops patagonicus)
  Western mastiff bat (Eumops perotis)
  Colombian bonneted bat (Eumops trumbulli)
  Underwood's bonneted bat (Eumops underwoodi)
  Genus Molossops
  Equatorial dog-faced bat (Molossops aequatorianus)
  Mato Grosso dog-faced bat (Molossops mattogrossensis)
  Rufous dog-faced bat (Molossops neglectus)
  Dwarf dog-faced bat (Molossops temminckii)
  Genus Molossus
  Molossus alvarezi
  Aztec mastiff bat (Molossus aztecus)
  Barnes' mastiff bat (Molossus barnesi)
  Molossus bondae
  Coiban mastiff bat (Molossus coibensis)
  Bonda mastiff bat (Molossus currentium)
  Velvety free-tailed bat (Molossus molossus)
  Miller's mastiff bat (Molossus pretiosus)
  Black mastiff bat (Molossus rufus)
  Sinaloan mastiff bat (Molossus sinaloae)
  Genus Mops
  Mops bakarii
  Sierra Leone free-tailed bat (Mops brachyptera)
  Angolan free-tailed bat (Mops condylurus)
  Medje free-tailed bat (Mops congicus)
  Mongalla free-tailed bat (Mops demonstrator)
  Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat (Mops leucostigma)
  Midas free-tailed bat (Mops midas)
  Malayan free-tailed bat (Mops mops)
  Dwarf free-tailed bat (Mops nanulus)
  Niangara free-tailed bat (Mops niangarae)
  White-bellied free-tailed bat (Mops niveiventer)
  Peterson's free-tailed bat (Mops petersoni)
  Sulawesi free-tailed bat (Mops sarasinorum)
  Spurrell's free-tailed bat (Mops spurrelli)
  Railer bat (Mops thersites)
  Trevor's free-tailed bat (Mops trevori)
  Genus Mormopterus
  Natal free-tailed bat (Mormopterus acetabulosus)
  Beccari's mastiff bat (Mormopterus beccarii)
  Mormopterus cobourgianus
  Sumatran mastiff bat (Mormopterus doriae)
  Bristle-faced free-tailed bat (Mormopterus eleryi)
  Mormopterus francoismoutoui
  Mormopterus halli
  Peter's wrinkle-lipped bat (Mormopterus jugularis)
  Kalinowski's mastiff bat (Mormopterus kalinowskii)
  Mormopterus kitcheneri
  Loria's mastiff bat (Mormopterus loriae)
  Mormopterus lumsdenae
  Little goblin bat (Mormopterus minutus)
  East-coast free-tailed bat (Mormopterus norfolkensis)
  Mormopterus petersi
  Incan little mastiff bat (Mormopterus phrudus)
  Southern free-tailed bat (Mormopterus planiceps)
  Mormopterus ridei
  Genus Myopterus
  Daubenton's free-tailed bat (Myopterus daubentonii)
  Bini free-tailed bat (Myopterus whitleyi)
  Genus Nyctinomops
  Peale's free-tailed bat (Nyctinomops aurispinosus)
  Pocketed free-tailed bat (Nyctinomops femorosaccus)
  Broad-eared bat (Nyctinomops laticaudatus)
  Big free-tailed bat (Nyctinomops macrotis)
  Genus Otomops
  Javan mastiff bat (Otomops formosus)
  Harrison's large-eare
caption: Otomops wroughtoni
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