A heavily built free-tailed bat with a broad muzzle, found mainly in America and Australasia.
Eumops, Molossus, and other genera, family Molossidae: several species, including the large western mastiff bat (E. perotis)
Example sentencesExamples
- This one's a mastiff bat,’ says a zoologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society.
- The zoologist and his collaborator use the handheld bat detector to catalog the calls of bats such as this mastiff bat.