Brachyphylla cavernarum Gray, 1834 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833:123 [1834].

TYPE LOCALITY: St. Vincent (Lesser Antilles, UK) .

DISTRIBUTION: Puerto Rico, Virgin Isis and throughout Lesser Antilles south to St. Vincent and Barbados.

SYNONYMS: intermedia, minor .

COMMENTS: Includes minor; see Swanepoel and Genoways (1978:39) and Varona (1974:27). Reviewed by Swanepoel and Genoways (1983a, Mammalian Species, 205).