Puerto Rican Flower Bat

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Short description: Species of mammal

Puerto Rican flower bat
Temporal range: Quaternary
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Phyllonycteris
Species:
P. major
Binomial name
Phyllonycteris major
Anthony, 1917

The Puerto Rican flower bat (Phyllonycteris major) is an extinct species of bat from the family Phyllostomidae (leaf-nosed bats). It was native to Puerto Rico and is known only from subfossil skeletal material.[1]

Sources

  • UNEP-WCMC Species Database
  • Bucknell University - Wilson & Reeder's: Mammal Species of the World (Third edition)
  • ZipCodeZoo.com

References

  1. "Phyllonycteris (Phyllonycteris) major". http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13801120. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1832422 entry




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