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

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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Phyllostomidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Phyllostomidae

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