Puerto Rican long-nosed bat

Puerto Rican
long-nosed bat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Monophyllus
Species: M. frater
Binomial name
Monophyllus plethodon
Miller, 1900
Trinomial name
Monophyllus plethodon frater
Anthony, 1917

The Puerto Rican long-nosed bat, Monophyllus plethodon frater,[1] is known only from a skull fragment excavated in the large Cathedral Cave near Morovis, Puerto Rico, by Dr. H. E. Anthony prior to 1917. This species was never observed or documented live. Its extinction is attributed to hurricanes. A fossil fragment was cataloged in London.[2]

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