Chaerephon (bat)

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Chaerephon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Chiroptera
Family:
Molossidae
Subfamily:
Molossinae
Genus:
Chaerephon

Dobson, 1874
Species

See text

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Chaerephon is a genus of Old World free-tail bats in the family Molossidae.[1] Molecular sequence data indicates that Chaerephon, Mops and Tadarida are not monophyletic taxa. The closest relatives of Chaerephon jobimena of Madagascar are Tadarida aegyptiaca of Africa and southwest Asia, and Tadarida brasiliensis of the Americas, which form a clade believed to be about 9.8 million years old. However, the grouping of Chaerephon minus C. jobimena plus Mops was found to be monophyletic.[2]

Species within this genus are:

References

  1. ↑ D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2005: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02551p036f.pdf

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