Mexican dog-faced bat

Mexican dog-faced bat
Mexican dog-faced bat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Molossidae
Genus: Cynomops
Species: C. mexicanus
Binomial name
Cynomops mexicanus
Jones & Genoways, 1967

The Mexican dog-faced bat (Cynomops mexicanus) is a bat species from Central America. It is found from Nayarit in Mexico to Costa Rica at elevations up to 1500 m.[1] It was formerly considered a subspecies of C. greenhalli. It roosts in deciduous and evergreen forest, and is usually found near small bodies of water.[1]

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