Cuban vampire bat

Cuban vampire bat
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene-Late Holocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Chiroptera
Family:Phyllostomidae
Genus:Desmodus
Species: D. puntajudensis
Binomial name
Desmodus puntajudensis
Woloszyn & Mayo, 1974

The Cuban vampire bat (Desmodus puntajudensis) is an extinct species of vampire bat that was described as native to Cuba during the late Pleistocene[1][2][3], but is now considered a synonym of the common vampire bat (D. rotundus)[4], with fossil remains that date to the late Holocene[5]

References

  1. ↑ "The Bats of Cuba". fossilmatter.blogspot.ca. 2016-05-31. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  2. ↑ "Cave Fieldwork in Cuba: 2002 - 2004". fossilmatter.blogspot.ca. 2015-07-17. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  3. ↑ "Taxonomic Status of the Cuban Vampire Bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Desmodontinae: Desmodus)". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  4. ↑ Orihuela, Johanset (2011). "Skull variation of the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae): Taxonomic implications for the Cuban fossil vampire bat Desmodus puntajudensis". Chiroptera Neotropical. 17 (1): 863–876. ISSN 2317-6105.
  5. ↑ Orihuela, Johanset (January 2010). "Late Holocene Fauna from a Cave Deposit in Western Cuba: post-Columbian occurrence of the Vampire BatDesmodus rotundus(Phyllostomidae: Desmodontinae)". Caribbean Journal of Science. 46 (2–3): 297–312. doi:10.18475/cjos.v46i2.a17. ISSN 0008-6452.


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