Desmodus puntajudensis Woloszyn & Mayo, 1974
Cuban vampire bat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Desmodus rotundus puntajudensis Woloszyn & Mayo, 1974
Now considered a synonym of D. rotundus (Orihuela, 2011).
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym)
Distribution
Cuba
Biology
Hypodigm
Holotype: at CZACC
Type locality: "Cueva del Centenario de Lenin, Punta Judas, Villa Clara Province (formerly Las Villas), Cuba"
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Woloszyn, B. W. and Mayo, N. A. (1974). Postglacial remains of a vampire bat (Chiroptera: Desmodus) from Cuba. Acta Zool. Cracoviensia 19: 253-265.
Other references:
Borroto-Páez, Rafael and Mancina, Carlos A. (2017). Biodiversity and conservation of Cuban mammals: past, present, and invasive species. Journal of Mammalogy 98(4): 964-985. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyx017
Cooke, Siobhán B., Dávalos, Liliana M., Mychajliw, Alexis M. Turvey, Samuel T. and Upham, Nathan S. (2017). Anthropogenic Extinction Dominates Holocene Declines of West Indian Mammals. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 48: 301-327. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110316-022754
Ignacio Ramos García and Rafael Borroto Páez. (2000). Ejemplares tipo de mamíferos en colecciones cubanas. Orsis 15: 75-89.
Jiménez Vázquez O, C ondis MM, and Elvis García C (2005) Vertebrados post-glaciales en un residuario fósil de Tyto alba scopoli (Aves: Tytonidae) en el occidente de Cuba. Revista Mexicana de Mastozoología 9, 85–112.
Orihuela, J. (2011). Skull variation of the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae): taxonomic implications for the Cuban fossil vampire bat Desmodus puntajudensis. Chiroptera Neotropi). Chiroptera Neotropical 17(1): 963-976.
Suarez, William. (2005). Taxonomic Status of the Cuban Vampire Bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Desmodontinae: Desmodus). Caribbean Journal of Science 41(4): 761-767.
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]
Upham, Nathan S. (2017). Past and present of insular Caribbean mammals: understanding Holocene extinctions to inform modern biodiversity conservation. Journal of Mammalogy 98(4): 913-917. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyx079