Biology:Cuban vampire bat
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| Cuban vampire bat Temporal range: Late Pleistocene-Late Holocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Phyllostomidae |
| Genus: | Desmodus |
| Species: | D. puntajudensis
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| Desmodus puntajudensis Woloszyn & Mayo, 1974
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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
- ↑ "The Bats of Cuba". 2016-05-31. http://fossilmatter.blogspot.ca/2016/05/the-bats-of-cuba.html.
- ↑ "Cave Fieldwork in Cuba: 2002 - 2004". 2015-07-17. http://fossilmatter.blogspot.ca/2015/07/fieldwork-cuba-2002-2004.html.
- ↑ "Taxonomic Status of the Cuban Vampire Bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Desmodontinae: Desmodus)" (in en). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268327545.
- ↑ Orihuela, Johanset (2011). "Skull variation of the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae): Taxonomic implications for the Cuban fossil vampire bat Desmodus puntajudensis" (in en-US). Chiroptera Neotropical 17 (1): 863–876. ISSN 2317-6105. http://chiropteraneotropical.net/index.php/cn/article/view/113.
- ↑ Orihuela, Johanset (January 2010). "Late Holocene Fauna from a Cave Deposit in Western Cuba: post-Columbian occurrence of the Vampire BatDesmodus rotundus(Phyllostomidae: Desmodontinae)" (in en-US). Caribbean Journal of Science 46 (2–3): 297–312. doi:10.18475/cjos.v46i2.a17. ISSN 0008-6452.
Wikidata ☰ Q29017937 entry
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