Stock's vampire bat

Stock's vampire bat
Temporal range: Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Chiroptera
Family:Phyllostomidae
Genus:Desmodus
Species: D. stocki
Binomial name
Desmodus stocki
Jones, 1958

Desmodus stocki, or Stock's vampire bat, is an extinct species of vampire bat native to North America. Its fossils were discovered in Florida, farther north than any living vampire bats.[1][2]

References

  1. "Desmodus stocki :: Florida Museum of Natural History".
  2. "Stock's Vampire Bat - Desmodus stocki - Overview - Encyclopedia of Life".


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