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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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    pumila Miller, 1918

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