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--> FAMILY Phyllostomidae
--> SUBFAMILY Brachyphyllinae
--> GENUS Brachyphylla
SPECIES Brachyphylla nana
Author: | Miller, 1902. | Citation: | Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 54: 409. | Common Name: | Cuban Fruit-eating Bat | Type Locality: | Cuba, Pinar del Río, El Guama. | Distribution: | Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica (extinct, known only from fossils), Grand Cayman (Cayman Isls, UK), Middle Caicos (SE Bahamas). | Status: | IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (nt). | Comments: | Includes pumila; see Jones and Carter (1976) and Swanepoel and Genoways (1978). Considered a subspecies of cavernarum by Buden (1977) and Hall (1981). Reviewed by Swanepoel and Genoways (1983b) and Timm and Genoways (2003). |
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