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

FAMILY PHYLLOSTOMIDAE GRAY, 1825

SUBFAMILY GLOSSOPHAGINAE BONAPARTE, 1845

Brachyphylla nana Miller, 1902

Figures 4–6

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).