Puerto Rican flower bat

Short description: Species of mammal

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

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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