Puerto Rican flower bat

Puerto Rican flower bat
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 endemic to Puerto Rico and is known only from subfossil skeletal material.[1]

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References

  1. "Phyllonycteris (Phyllonycteris) major".


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