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Puerto Rican flower bat

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Puerto Rican flower bat
Temporal range: Quaternary
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]

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  1. ^ "Phyllonycteris (Phyllonycteris) major".