title: Mastiff bat
text: # Mastiff bat
  
  The name mastiff bat is applied to certain species of the bat family Molossidae or so called free-tailed bats. It is usually applied specifically to the following genera:
  
  * Eumops, mastiff bats or bonneted bats
  * Mops (bat), greater mastiff bats, a genus of bats in the family Molossidae
  * Promops, dome-palate mastiff bats
  * Chaerephon (bat), lesser mastiff bats
  
  and sometimes more loosely to the rest of the family.
  
  