Puerto Rican flower bat
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| Species: | P. major
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| 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 endemic 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
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