PHYLLOSTOMIDAE GRAY, 1825

Velazco, Paúl M., O'Neill, Hannah, Gunnell, Gregg F., Cooke, Siobhán B., Rimoli, Renato, Rosenberger, Alfred L. & Simmons, Nancy B., 2013, Quaternary Bat Diversity in the Dominican Republic, American Museum Novitates 2013 (3779), pp. 1-20 : 11

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PHYLLOSTOMIDAE GRAY, 1825
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FAMILY PHYLLOSTOMIDAE GRAY, 1825 View in CoL

SUBFAMILY GLOSSOPHAGINAE BONAPARTE, 1845

Brachyphylla nana Miller, 1902

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MATERIAL EXAMINED: Oleg’s Bat Cave: 25 complete skulls, 8 mandibles, 5 dentaries, 7 scapula, 11 pelvises, 16 humeri, 4 femora.

EXTANT DISTRIBUTION: Cayman Islands (Grand Cayman), Cuba, Hispaniola, and Turks and Caicos Islands (Middle Caicos) ( Simmons, 2005).

Fossil record: Brachyphylla nana has been recovered from fossilized owl pellets (Port-de- Paix) and superficial deposit material (Saint-Michel-de-l’Atalaye) in Haiti and from a Quaternary cave deposit (Cerro de San Francisco) in the Dominican Republic (fig. 2; table 1). Additionally, B. nana has been found in Pleistocene or Holocene cave deposits in the Bahamas (Andros and New Providence), Cayman Islands (Cayman Brac), Cuba, and Jamaica ( Peterson, 1917; Anthony, 1919; Miller, 1929a; Koopman and Williams, 1951; Williams, 1952; Koopman and Ruibal, 1955; Arredondo, 1970; Mayo, 1970; Silva Taboada, 1974; Woloszyn and Silva Taboada, 1977; Swanepoel and Genoways, 1978; Morgan, 2001).

REMARKS: No consistent differences in cranial or postcranial morphology or size were found between our sample and the comparative material (appendix).

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Arredondo, O. 1970. Dos nuevas especies subfosiles de mamiferos (Insectivora: Nesophontidae) del Holoceno Precolombino de Cuba. Memorias de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 86 (30): 122 - 152.

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Koopman, K. F., and R. Ruibal. 1955. Cave-fossil vertebrates from Camaguey, Cuba. Breviora 46: 1 - 8.

Mayo, N. A. 1970. La fauna vertebrada de Punta Judas. In A. Grana Gonzalez and J. Izquierdo Bordon (editors), Sistema subterraneo de Punta Judas. Academia de Ciencias de Cuba. Serie Espeleologica y Carsologica 30: 38 - 45.

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Morgan, G. S. 2001. Patterns of extinction in West Indian bats. In C. A. Woods and F. E. Sergile (editors), Biogeography of the West Indies: patterns and perspectives: 369 - 406. Boca Raton: CRC Press.

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Silva Taboada, G. 1974. Fossil Chiroptera from cave deposits in central Cuba, with description of two new species (genera Pteronotus and Mormoops) and the first West Indian record of Mormoops megalophylla. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 19: 33 - 73.

Simmons, N. B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. In D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder (editors), Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3 rd ed., 1: 312 - 529. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Swanepoel, P., and H. H. Genoways. 1978. Revision of the Antillean bats of the genus Brachyphylla (Mammalia: Phyllostomatidae). Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 12: l - 53.

Williams, E. E. 1952. Additional notes of fossil and subfossil bats from Jamaica. Journal of Mammalogy 33: 171 - 179.

Woloszyn, B. W., and G. Silva Taboada. 1977. Nueva especie fosil de Artibeus (Mammalia: Chiroptera) de Cuba, y tipificacion preliminar de los depositos fosiliferos cubanos contentivos de mamiferos terrestres. Poeyana 161: 1 - 17.

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FIGURE 4. Phyllostomidae skulls: dorsal, lateral, and ventral views. A. Brachyphylla nana, B. Erophylla bombifrons, C. Monophyllus redmani, D. Phyllonycteris poeyi. Scale bar = 5 mm.

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FIGURE 5. Chiropteran mandibles. A. Mormoops blainvillei, B. Pteronotus macleayii, C. Pteronotus parnellii, D. Pteronotus quadridens, E. Brachyphylla nana, F. Erophylla bombifrons, G. Monophyllus redmani, H. Phyllonycteris poeyi. Scale bar = 5 mm.

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FIGURE 6. Chiropteran humeri. A. Mormoops blainvillei (extant, ROM 89973), B. Mormoops megalophylla (extant, AMNH 25589), C. †Mormoops magna, D. †Mormoops magna (mirror image), E. Pteronotus macleayii (mirror image), F. Brachyphylla nana (mirror image), G. Erophylla bombifrons (mirror image), H. Monophyllus redmani (mirror image), I. Phyllonycteris poeyi. Scale bar = 10 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Phyllostomidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Phyllostomidae