Chaerephon (bat)
Chaerephon is a genus of Old World free-tailed bats in the family Molossidae. 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.
Species within this genus are:
- Chaerephon atsinanana
- Duke of Abruzzi's free-tailed bat, Chaerephon aloysiisabaudiae
- Ansorge's free-tailed bat, Chaerephon ansorgei
- Gland-tailed free-tailed bat, Chaerephon bemmeleni
- Spotted free-tailed bat, Chaerephon bivittatus
- Fijian mastiff bat, Chaerephon bregullae
- Chapin's free-tailed bat, Chaerephon chapini
- Gallagher's free-tailed bat, Chaerephon gallagheri
- Northern freetail bat, Chaerephon jobensis
- Black and red free-tailed bat, Chaerephon jobimena
- Northern free-tailed bat, Chaerephon johorensis
- Grandidier's free-tailed bat, Chaerephon leucogaster
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat, Chaerephon major
- Nigerian free-tailed bat, Chaerephon nigeriae
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat, Chaerephon plicatus
- Little free-tailed bat, Chaerephon pumilus
- Chaerephon pusillus
- Russet free-tailed bat, Chaerephon russatus
- Shortridge's free-tailed bat, Chaerephon shortridgei
- Solomons mastiff bat, Chaerephon solomonis
- São Tomé free-tailed bat, Chaerephon tomensis
