Phyllonycteris poeyi Gundlach, 1861 . Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin for 1860, p. 817.

TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba, Matanzas, Canimar (cafetal "San Antonio el Fundador") .

DISTRIBUTION: Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic). Isle of Pines (JRT).

COMMENT: Includes obtusa; see Jones and Carter, 1976:30; from Hispaniola this subspecies was described from fossil remains and was only recently discovered as a living animal; see Klingener, et al., 1978, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 47:90-92. Corbet and Hill, 1980:61, listed obtusa as a distinct species without comment.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301405008048004001.