Puerto Rican flower bat
Puerto Rican flower bat Temporal range: Quaternary
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Phyllostomidae |
Genus: | Phyllonycteris |
Species: | P. major
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Binomial name | |
Phyllonycteris major Anthony, 1917
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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[]
Categories:
- Phyllonycteris
- Mammal extinctions since 1500
- Phyllostomidae stubs
- Puerto Rico stubs