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Tadarida brasiliensis (Mexican free-tailed bat)

Mammalia - Chiroptera - Molossidae

Taxonomy
Nyctinomus brasiliensis was named by Geoffroy (1824). It is extant.

It was recombined as Tadarida brasiliensis by Choate and Birney (1968), Dalquest and Roth (1970), Martin (1972), Martin (1972), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Morgan (1994) and Rabon et al. (2000).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1824Nyctinomus brasiliensis Geoffroy
1968Tadarida brasiliensis Choate and Birney
1970Tadarida brasiliensis Dalquest and Roth p. 222
1972Tadarida brasiliensis Martin
1980Tadarida brasiliensis Kurten and Anderson p. 126
1994Tadarida brasiliensis Morgan p. 489
2000Tadarida brasiliensis Rabon et al. p. 58

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
orderChiropteraBlumenbach 1779
suborderYangochiropteraKoopman 1984
superfamilyVespertilionoidea
familyMolossidaeGervais 1856
subfamilyTadaridinaeLegendre 1984
genusTadaridaRafinesque 1814
speciesbrasiliensis(Geoffroy 1824)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Tadarida brasiliensis Geoffroy 1824 [Mexican free-tailed bat]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available