Puerto Rican Flower Bat

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

Short description: Species of mammal

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]

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

Wikidata ☰ Q1832422 entry

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

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