Mormoops Leach, 1821. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 13: 76
Mormoops blainvillii Leach, 1821
Aello Leach, 1821.
References:
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1957. Additions to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of the generic name Mormoops Leach, 1821 (Class Mammalia). Opinions of the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature 16: 1-12. Read article.
Leach, W.E. 1821. The characters of seven genera of bats with foliaceous appendages to the nose. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13(1): 73-82. Read article.
Mormoops blainvillei Leach, 1821.
Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 13: 77.
Antillean Ghost-faced Bat
blainvillei Leach, 1821:
cinnamomeum Gundlach, 1840;
cuvieri Leach, 1821.
Jamaica
Greater Antilles, adjacent small islands
CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Least Concern (2016).
See Lancaster and Kalko (1996) and Timm and Genoways (2003). Apparently no longer occurs on the islands of the Bahamas, but known from fossil material (see Koopman et al. 1957). Often spelled blainvillii, but this was an incorrect original spelling; the correct spelling is blainvillei (see Opinion 462 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1957). The ICZN placed blainvilli on the Offical Index of Rejected and Invalid Specific Names in Zoology, and placed blainvillei on the Offical List of Specific Names in Zoology in Opinion 462.
References:
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1957. Additions to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of the generic name Mormoops Leach, 1821 (Class Mammalia). Opinions of the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature 16: 1-12. Read article.
Lancaster, W.C., and E.K.V. Kalko 1996. Mormoops blanvillii. Mammalian Species 544: 1-5. Read article.
Leach, W.E. 1821. The characters of seven genera of bats with foliaceous appendages to the nose. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13(1): 73-82. Read article.
Timm, R.M. and H.H. Genoways. 2003. West Indian mammals from the Albert Schwartz Collection: biological and historical information. Mammalogy Papers: University of Nebraska State Musuem 107: 1-47. Read article.
Mormoops megalophylla (Peters, 1864).
Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1864: 381.
Peters's Ghost-faced Bat
Mormops megalophylla
carteri Smith, 1972
.intermedia Miller, 1900
.megalophylla Peters, 1864:
rufescens Davis & Carter, 1962;
senicula Rehn, 1902.
tumidiceps Miller, 1902
.Mexico, Coahuila, Parras
S Texas, S Arizona (USA), and Baja California (Mexico) south to NW Peru and N Venezuela; Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles); Trinidad; Margarita Isl (Venezuela)
CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Least Concern (2019).
See Rezsutek and Cameron (1993). Observed in Costa Rica; see York et al. 2020.
References:
Peters, H.W. 1864. Hr. W. Peters berichtete über einige neue Säugethiere (Mormops, Macrotus, Hesperus, Molossus, Caproniys), Amphibien (Platydactflus, Otocryptis, Euprepes, Ungalia, Dromicus, Tropidonotus, Xenodon, Hylodes) und Fische (Silage, Webastes, Channa, Myctophum, Carassius, Barbus, Capoeta, Poecilia, Saurenchelys, Leptocephalus). Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1864: 381-399. Read article.
Rezsutek, M., and G.N. Cameron 1993. Mormoops megalophylla. Mammalian Species 448: 1-5. Read article.
This name is used instead of Aello following Opinion 462 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1957).