A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Molossidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Short-winged Free-tailed BatMops (Xiphonycteris) brachypterus (Peters, 1852) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dwarf Free-tailed BatMops (Xiphonycteris) nanulus J. A. Allen, 1917 | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Peterson's Free-tailed BatMops (Xiphonycteris) petersoni (El Rayah, 1981) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Spurrell's Free-tailed BatMops (Xiphonycteris) spurrelli (Dollman, 1911) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Railer BatMops (Xiphonycteris) thersites (Thomas, 1903) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sumatran Little Mastiff BatMormopterus doriae K. Andersen, 1907 | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Reunion Little Mastiff BatMormopterus francoismoutoui Goodman, van Vuuren, Ratrimomanarivo, Probst & Bowie, 2008 | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Peters's Little Mastiff BatMormopterus jugularis (Peters, 1865) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kalinowski's Little Mastiff BatMormopterus kalinowskii (Thomas, 1893) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Daubenton's Free-tailed BatMyopterus daubentonii Desmarest, 1820 | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bini Free-tailed BatMyopterus whitleyi (Scharff, 1900) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mato Grosso Dog-faced BatNeoplatymops mattogrossensis (Vieira, 1942) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Peale's Free-tailed BatNyctinomops aurispinosus (Peale, 1848) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pocketed Free-tailed BatNyctinomops femorosaccus (Merriam, 1889) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Broad-eared BatNyctinomops laticaudatus (E. Geoffroy, 1805) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Big Free-tailed BatNyctinomops macrotis (Gray, 1840) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Harrison's Giant Mastiff BatOtomops harrisoni Ralph, Richards, Taylor, Napier & Lamb, 2015 | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Johnstone's Giant Mastiff BatOtomops johnstonei Kitchener, How & Maryanto, 1992 | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Madagascar Giant Mastiff BatOtomops madagascariensis Dorst, 1953 | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Large-eared Free-tailed BatOtomops martiensseni (Matschie, 1897) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Big-eared Mastiff BatOtomops papuensis Lawrence, 1948 | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mantled Giant Mastiff BatOtomops secundus Hayman, 1952 | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Wroughton's Free-tailed BatOtomops wroughtoni (Thomas, 1913) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| North-western Free-tailed BatOzimops cobourgianus (Johnson, 1959) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| South-western Free-tailed BatOzimops kitcheneri (McKenzie, Reardon & Adams, 2014) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Loria's Free-tailed BatOzimops loriae (Thomas, 1897) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Inland Free-tailed BatOzimops petersi (Leche, 1884) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Southern Free-tailed BatOzimops planiceps (Peters, 1866) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Peters's Flat-headed BatPlatymops setiger (Peters, 1878) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Big Crested Mastiff BatPromops centralis Thomas, 1915 | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Davison's Mastiff BatPromops davisoni Thomas, 1921 | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brown Mastiff BatPromops nasutus (Spix, 1823) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Roberts's Flat-headed BatSauromys petrophilus (Roberts, 1917) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bristle-faced Free-tailed BatSetirostris eleryi (Reardon & McKenzie, 2008) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Egyptian Free-tailed BatTadarida aegyptiaca (E. Geoffroy, 1818) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brazilian Free-tailed BatTadarida brasiliensis (I. Geoffroy, 1824) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Madagascan Large Free-tailed BatTadarida fulminans (Thomas, 1903) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| East Asian Free-tailed BatTadarida insignis (Blyth, 1862) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| La Touche's Free-tailed BatTadarida latouchei Thomas, 1920 | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Big-eared Free-tailed BatTadarida lobata (Thomas, 1891) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| European Free-tailed BatTadarida teniotis (Rafinesque, 1814) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| African Giant Free-tailed BatTadarida ventralis (Heuglin, 1861) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blunt-eared BatTomopeas ravus Miller, 1900 | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.