Molossus tropidorhynchus

Familia: Molossidae
Subfamilia: Molossinae
Genus: Molossus
Species:

Molossus tropidorhynchus Gray, 1839

• Holotype: BMNH 1854.12.27.6, adult ♂, body in alcohol with skull removed, collected by W. S. MacLeay, date unknown.
• Type locality: “in the city of Havana”, Cuba.

• Molossus fuliginosus Gray, 1838: 501 [nomen praeoccupatum pro Molossus fuliginosus Cooper, 1837]
  • Lectotype: BMNH 28b, ♀, presented by J. Bell. [designated by Dobson (1878: 413)]
  • Type locality: not stated, cited as “Jamaica” by Dobson (1878: 413).

• Molossus milleri Johnson, 1952: 197 [nomen novum pro Molossus fuliginosus Gray, 1838]

• Gray, J.E. 1838. A Revision of the Genera of Bats (Vespertilionidae) and the Description of some new Genera and Species. Magazine of Zoology and Botany 2(12): 483–505. BHL Reference page. 
• Gray, J.E. 1839. Descriptions of some Mammalia discovered in Cuba by W. S. MacLeay, Esq. With some account of their habits, extracted from Mr. MacLeay's notes. Annals of Natural History (1)4(21): 1–7.
• Dobson, G.E. 1878. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum of Natural History: London. xxxvi + 567 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Johnson, D.H. 1952. A new name for the Jamaican bat Molossus fuliginosus Gray. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 65: 197–198. BHL Reference page. 

• Loureiro, L.O., Engstrom, M., Lim, B., González, C.L. & Juste, J. 2019. Not All Molossus are Created Equal: Genetic Variation in the Mastiff Bat Reveals Diversity Masked by Conservative Morphology. Acta Chiropterologica 21(1): 51–64. DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2019.21.1.004 Reference page. 
• Amaro-Valdés, S. & De Armas, L.F. 2024. The true taxonomic identity of the mastiff bats (Chiroptera: Molossidae: Molossus) from Cuba, Cayman Islands and Jamaica. Zootaxa 5453(3): 448–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5453.3.10 Reference page.