Brachyphylla Gray 1834 (fruit-eating bat)
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Mammalia - Chiroptera - Phyllostomidae
Parent taxon: Phyllostomatidae according to J. R. Choate and E. C. Birney 1968
See also Morgan 1994 and Palmer 1904
Sister taxa: Carolliinae, Desmodontinae, Lonchophyllinae, Lophostoma, Macrophyllum, Micronycteris, Mimon, Phylloderma, Phyllostominae, Stenodermatinae, Trachops, Uroderma, Erophylla, Stenoderma, Notonycteris, Phyllonycteris, Macrotus, Glossophaginae, Artibeus, Lonchophylla, Mormoops, Phyllostomatinae
Subtaxa: Brachyphylla cavernarum Brachyphylla nana
Ecology: volant omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antigua and Barbuda (1 collection), Cayman Islands (4), Cuba (2), Puerto Rico (4)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
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