Artibeus anthonyi, also known as Anthony's fruit-eating bat, is an extinct species of bat from the Late Quaternary of Cuba.[1]
Artibeus anthonyi Temporal range: Late Quaternary
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Phyllostomidae |
Genus: | Artibeus |
Species: | †A. anthonyi
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Binomial name | |
†Artibeus anthonyi (Woloszyn & Silva Taboda, 1977)
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Anthony's fruit-eating bat shows the greatest morphological divergence compared with extant Artibeus species.[2]
References
edit- ^ Orihuela, Johanset; Pérez Orozco, Leonel; Álvarez Licourt, Jorge L.; Viera Muñoz, Ricardo A.; Santana Barani, Candido (2020). "Late Holocene land vertebrate fauna from Cueva de los Nesofontes, Western Cuba: Stratigraphy, chronology, diversity, and paleoecology". Palaeontologia Electronica. 23 (3): a57. doi:10.26879/995. ISSN 1935-3952.
- ^ Balseiro, Fernando; Mancina, Carlos A.; Guerrero, Jose A. (December 2009). "Taxonomic Status of Artibeus anthonyi (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), a Fossil Bat from Cuba". Journal of Mammalogy. 90 (6): 1487–1494. doi:10.1644/08-MAMM-A-372R1.1.