Puerto Rican Flower Bat | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Phyllostomidae |
Genus: | Phyllonycteris |
Species: | P. major |
Binomial name | |
Phyllonycteris major Anthony, 1917 |
The Puerto Rican Flower Bat (Phyllonycteris major) is an extinct species of bat from the family Phyllostomidae (leaf-nosed bats). It was endemic to Puerto Rico and is known only from subfossil skeletal material.[1]