Molossus E. Geoffroy 1805 Molossus E. Geoffroy 1805, Ann. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat. Paris, 6: 151. Type Species: Vespertilio molossus Pallas 1766 Synonyms: Dysopes Illiger 1811. Species and subspecies: 8 species with 12 subspecies: Species Molossus aztecus Saussure 1860 Species Molossus barnesi Thomas 1905 Species Molossus coibensis J. A. Allen 1904 Species Molossus currentium Thomas 1901 Subspecies Molossus currentium subsp. currentium Thomas 1901 Subspecies Molossus currentium subsp. bondae J. A. Allen 1904 Subspecies Molossus currentium subsp. robustus López-González and Presley 2001 Species Molossus molossus (Pallas 1766) Subspecies Molossus molossus subsp. molossus Pallas 1766 Subspecies Molossus molossus subsp. debilis Miller 1913 Subspecies Molossus molossus subsp. pygmaeus Miller 1900 Subspecies Molossus molossus subsp. fortis Miller 1913 Subspecies Molossus molossus subsp. milleri Johnson 1952 Subspecies Molossus molossus subsp. tropidorhynchus Gray 1839 Subspecies Molossus molossus subsp. verrilli J. A. Allen 1908 Species Molossus pretiosus Miller 1902 Species Molossus rufus E. Geoffroy 1805 Species Molossus sinaloae J. A. Allen 1906 Subspecies Molossus sinaloae subsp. sinaloae J. A. Allen 1906 Subspecies Molossus sinaloae subsp. trinitatus Goodwin 1959 Discussion: Central American species revised by Dolan (1989). Jennings et al. (2000) provided a key to species modified from Hall (1981), but did not include many of the species recognized here as distinct.

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Molossidae, pp. 432-451 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 440, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519