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Otomops

genus of mammals

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 13, 2023
Entity authorityQ2525205 ↗
Source-derived summary

Otomops is a genus of bat in the family Molossidae. Molecular sequence data supports it as a monophyletic taxon, although not a number of other molossid genera.

Editorial summary

“Otomops” enters the record as genus of mammals. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Otomops, genus and mammals can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 27-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Otomops, genus and mammals.
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Why this record matters

“Otomops” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Otomops, genus and mammals provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 13, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q2525205. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Otomops primary sources, Otomops archive and Otomops research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Has classification or technical consensus changed since the cited source?
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This entry incorporates text from “Otomops” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.