Lesser Antillean funnel-eared bat

The Lesser Antillean funnel-eared bat (Natalus stramineus stramineus) is a subspecies of the Mexican funnel-eared bat (Natalus stramineus) found to be endemic to the Lesser Antilles islands of the Caribbean.

Lesser Antillean funnel-eared bat
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Natalidae
Genus:	Natalus
Species:	N. stramineus
Subspecies:	N. s. stramineus
Trinomial name
Natalus stramineus stramineus Gray, 1838

The subspecies was first described by George Gilbert Goodwin in his 1959 book Bats of the subgenus Natalus,^[1] and then a study in 1997 used genetic data to further confirm a separate species in the Antillean islands.^[2]

The species is listed as endemic to Saba by BirdLife International,^[3] although they have been sighted in Antigua, a specimen was collected on Nevis in 2001,^[4] and remains were collected on Saint Martin in 2002.^[5]