Erophylla bombifrons (Miller, 1899)

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 : 11-12

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/3779.2

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scientific name

Erophylla bombifrons (Miller, 1899)
status

 

Erophylla bombifrons (Miller, 1899) View in CoL

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MATERIAL EXAMINED: Cueva de Lily: 1 complete skull, 2 skull fragments, 3 dentaries, 16 humeri, 2 femora, 19 radii. Oleg’s Bat Cave: 12 complete skulls, 6 mandibles, 2 dentaries, 1 scapula, 2 humeri, 2 femora.

EXTANT DISTRIBUTION: Hispaniola and Puerto Rico ( Dávalos and Turvey, 2012; Simmons,

2005).

FOSSIL RECORD: The only previous fossil record for this species is from Hispaniola, consisting of specimens recovered from fossilized owl pellets (Port-de-Paix) and superficial deposit material (Saint-Michel-de-l’Atalaye) from Haiti, and from a Quaternary cave deposit (Cerro de San Francisco) from the Dominican Republic (fig. 2; table 1).

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

Genus

Erophylla

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