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SPECIES Brachyphylla cavernarum

Author:Gray, 1833.
Actual Date:1834
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833: 123.
Common Name:Antillean Fruit-eating Bat
Type Locality:St. Vincent (Lesser Antilles, UK).
Distribution:Puerto Rico, Virgin Isls and throughout Lesser Antilles south to St. Vincent and Barbados.
Status:IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Includes minor; see Swanepoel and Genoways (1978) and Varona (1974). Reviewed by Swanepoel and Genoways (1983a) and Timm and Genoways (2003).
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SUBSPECIES cavernarum

SUBSPECIES intermedia

SUBSPECIES minor

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