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Species of bat

Railer bat

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Molossidae
Genus:	Mops
Species:	M. thersites
Binomial name
*Mops thersites* (Thomas, 1903)
Synonyms
Nyctinomus thersites Thomas, 1903 Tadarida thersites Thomas, 1903

The Railer bat (Mops thersites) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

One of the unique features of the Molossolid bats such as the railer bat is that they have two sets of parotid glands. This is uncommon as most species of bats have two sets of submandibular glands.

References

Monadjem, A.; Fahr, J.; Bergmans, W.; Mickleburgh, S.; Hutson, A.M.; Juste, J. (2017). "Mops thersites". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T13849A22077236. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T13849A22077236.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
Tandler, Bernard; Nagato, Toshikazu; Phillips, Carleton J. (1998). "Ultrastructure of the binary parotid glands in the Free-tailed bat, Tadarida thersites. II. Accessory parotid gland". The Anatomical Record. 251 (1): 122–135. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199805)251:1<122::AID-AR17>3.0.CO;2-Q. PMID 9605228.

Extant species of family Molossidae

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Eutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Chiroptera

Subfamily Molossinae

Chaerephon (Lesser mastiff bats)	Duke of Abruzzi's free-tailed bat (C. aloysiisabaudiae) C. atsinanana Ansorge's free-tailed bat (C. ansorgei) Gland-tailed free-tailed bat (C. bemmeleni) Spotted free-tailed bat (C. bivittata) Fijian mastiff bat (C. bregullae) Chapin's free-tailed bat (C. chapini) Gallagher's free-tailed bat (C. gallagheri) Northern freetail bat (C. jobensis) Red free-tailed bat (C. jobimena) Northern free-tailed bat (C. johorensis) Grandidier's free-tailed bat (C. leucogaster) Lappet-eared free-tailed bat (C. major) Nigerian free-tailed bat (C. nigeriae) Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat (C. plicata) Little free-tailed bat (C. pumila) Russet free-tailed bat (C. russata) Solomons mastiff bat (C. solomonis) São Tomé free-tailed bat (C. tomensis)
Cheiromeles (Naked bats)	Hairless bat (C. torquatus) C. parvidens
Cynomops	Cinnamon dog-faced bat (C. abrasus) Freeman's dog-faced bat (C. freemani) Greenhall's dog-faced bat (C. greenhalli) Mexican dog-faced bat (C. mexicanus) C. milleri Para dog-faced bat (C. paranus) Southern dog-faced bat (C. planirostris)
Eumops (Mastiff bats)	Black bonneted bat (E. auripendulus) Dwarf bonneted bat (E. bonariensis) Big bonneted bat (E. dabbenei) E. ferox Florida bonneted bat (E. floridanus) Wagner's bonneted bat (E. glaucinus) Sanborn's bonneted bat (E. hansae) Guianan bonneted bat (E. maurus) E. nanus Patagonian bonneted bat (E. patagonicus) Western mastiff bat (E. perotis) Colombian bonneted bat (E. trumbulli) Underwood's bonneted bat (E. underwoodi) E. wilsoni
Mormopterus	Subgenus Mormopterus Natal free-tailed bat (M. acetabulosus) M. francoismoutoui Sumatran mastiff bat (M. doriae) Peters's wrinkle-lipped bat (M. jugularis) Kalinowski's mastiff bat (M. kalinowskii) Little goblin bat (M. minutus) Incan little mastiff bat (M. phrudus) Subgenus Micronomus East-coast free-tailed bat (M. norfolkensis) Subgenus Ozimops Beccari's free-tailed bat (M. beccarii) M. halli M. kitcheneri M. loriae M. lumsdenae M. petersi Southern free-tailed bat (M. planiceps) Eastern free-tailed bat (M. ridei) Subgenus Setirostris M. eleryi
Molossops (Broad-faced bats)	Equatorial dog-faced bat (M. (Cabreramops) aequatorianus) Mato Grosso dog-faced bat (M. mattogrossensis) Rufous dog-faced bat (M. neglectus) Dwarf dog-faced bat (M. temminckii)
Molossus (Velvety free-tailed bats)	Aztec mastiff bat (M. aztecus) M. barnesi Coiban mastiff bat (M. coibensis) Bonda mastiff bat (M. currentium) Velvety free-tailed bat (M. molossus) Miller's mastiff bat (M. pretiosus) Black mastiff bat (M. rufus) Sinaloan mastiff bat (M. sinaloae) M. trinitatus
Mops (Greater mastiff bats)	Subgenus Xiphonycteris Spurrell's free-tailed bat (M. spurrelli) Dwarf free-tailed bat (M. nanulus) Peterson's free-tailed bat (M. petersoni) M. leonis Sierra Leone free-tailed bat (M. brachyptera) M. bakarii Railer bat (M. thersites) Subgenus Mops Angolan free-tailed bat (M. condylurus) White-bellied free-tailed bat (M. niveiventer) Mongalla free-tailed bat (M. demonstrator) Malayan free-tailed bat (M. mops) Sulawesi free-tailed bat (M. sarasinorum) Trevor's free-tailed bat (M. trevori) M. congica Midas free-tailed bat (M. midas) Niangara free-tailed bat (M. niangarae) Medje free-tailed bat (M. congicus) M. leucostigma
Myopterus	Daubenton's free-tailed bat (M. daubentonii) Bini free-tailed bat (M. whitleyi)
Neoplatymops	Mato Grosso dog-faced bat (N. mattogrossensis)
Nyctinomops (New World free-tailed bats)	Peale's free-tailed bat (N. aurispinosus) Pocketed free-tailed bat (N. femorosaccus) Broad-eared bat (N. laticaudatus) Big free-tailed bat (N. macrotis)
Otomops (Big-eared free-tailed bats)	Javan mastiff bat (O. formosus) Harrison's large-eared giant mastiff bat (O. harrisoni) Johnstone's mastiff bat (O. johnstonei) Madagascar free-tailed bat (O. madagascariensis) Large-eared free-tailed bat (O. martiensseni) Big-eared mastiff bat (O. papuensis) Mantled mastiff bat (O. secundus) Wroughton's free-tailed bat (O. wroughtoni)
Platymops	Peters's flat-headed bat (P. setiger)
Promops (Domed-palate mastiff bats)	Big crested mastiff bat (P. centralis) P. davisoni Brown mastiff bat (P. nasutus)
Sauromys	Roberts's flat-headed bat (S. petrophilus)
Tadarida (Free-tailed bats)	Egyptian free-tailed bat (T. aegyptiaca) White-striped free-tailed bat (T. australis) Mexican free-tailed bat (T. brasiliensis) Madagascan large free-tailed bat (T. fulminans) European free-tailed bat (T. insignis) New Guinea free-tailed bat (T. kuboriensis) La Touche's free-tailed bat (T. latouchei) Kenyan big-eared free-tailed bat (T. lobata) European free-tailed bat (T. teniotis) African giant free-tailed bat (T. ventralis)

Subfamily Tomopeatinae

Tomopeas	Blunt-eared bat (T. ravus)

Taxon identifiers
Mops thersites	Wikidata: Q1834802 Wikispecies: Mops thersites EoL: 328881 GBIF: 2433079 IRMNG: 11020399 ITIS: 632232 IUCN: 13849 MDD: 1005222 MSW: 13801695 Observation.org: 85094 Open Tree of Life: 3613979
Nyctinomus thersites	Wikidata: Q24276693 CoL: 7W42R GBIF: 7352505 ITIS: 946698

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