Cuban fruit-eating bat

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Cuban fruit-eating bat
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Brachyphylla
Species:
B. nana
Binomial name
Brachyphylla nana
Miller, 1902
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Cuban fruit-eating bat range

The Cuban fruit-eating bat (Brachyphylla nana) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae found in the Cayman Islands, Cuba, and Hispaniola (both the Dominican Republic and Haiti).It has been extirpated from the Bahamas and Jamaica. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Davalos, L.; Mancina, C. (2019). "Brachyphylla nana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019: e.T2983A22039031. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T2983A22039031.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.


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