Puerto Rican flower bat
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| Puerto Rican flower bat Temporal range: Quaternary
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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 Archived 2008-03-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Bucknell University - Wilson & Reeder's: Mammal Species of the World (Third edition)
- ZipCodeZoo.com
References
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