List of mormoopids

Mormoopidae is one of the twenty families of bats in the mammalian order Chiroptera and part of the microbat suborder.

[1] No mormoopids have population estimates, though the Paraguana moustached bat is categorized as an endangered species.

A few extinct prehistoric mormoopid species have been discovered, though due to ongoing research and discoveries the exact number and categorization is not fixed.

The family Mormoopidae consists of eleven species in two genera: Mormoops and Pteronotus.

Family Mormoopidae The following classification is based on the taxonomy described by the reference work Mammal Species of the World (2005), with augmentation by generally accepted proposals made since using molecular phylogenetic analysis, as supported by both the IUCN and the American Society of Mammalogists.

A brown bat on a tree
Parnell's mustached bat ( Pteronotus parnellii )