Puerto Rican flower bat

The Puerto Rican flower bat (Phyllonycteris major) is an extinct species of bat from the family Phyllostomidae (leaf-nosed bats). It was native to Puerto Rico and is known only from subfossil skeletal material.^[1]

Puerto Rican flower bat Temporal range: Quaternary
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Phyllostomidae
Genus:	Phyllonycteris
Species:	†P. major
Binomial name
†Phyllonycteris major Anthony, 1917

Sources

• UNEP-WCMC Species Database Archived 2008-03-29 at the Wayback Machine
• Bucknell University - Wilson & Reeder's: Mammal Species of the World (Third edition)
• ZipCodeZoo.com