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Artibeus anthonyi Woloszyn & Silva Taboda, 1977

Anthony's leaf-nosed bat (proposed)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Quaternary

 

This species is only known from sub-fossil remains of Quaternary age.

 

Distribution

Cuba

 

Biology

 

 

Hypodigm

Holotype: IZACC 344.2 (cranium)

Type Locality and Horizon: Cueva del Centenario de Lenin, Punta Judas, Yaguajay, Provincia de Las Villas, Cuba

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Woloszyn, B. W. and G. Silva Taboada. (1977). Nueva especie fósil de Artibeus (Mammalia: Chiroptera) de Cuba, y tipificación preliminar de los depósitos fosilíferos Cubanos contentivos de mamíferos terrestres. Poeyana 161: 1-17.

 

Other references:

Anthony, H. (1919). Mammals collected in eastern Cuba in 1917: with descriptions of two new species. Bull. Am. Museum Nat. Hist. 41: 625-674.

Balseiro, Fernando, Mancina, Carlos A. and Guerrero, José Antonio. (2009). Taxonomic Status of Artibeus anthonyi (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), a Fossil Bat from Cuba. Journal of Mammalogy 90(6): 1487-1494. [Abstract]

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

García, Ignacio Ramos and Páez, Rafael Borroto. (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, Johanset. (2010). Late Holocene Fauna from a Cave Deposit in Western Cuba: post-Columbian occurrence of the Vampire Bat Desmodus rotundus (Phyllostomidae: Desmodontinae). Caribbean Journal of Science 46(2-3): 297-312. [Abstract]

Orihuela, Johanset, Viñola, Lázaro W. and Viera, Ricardo A. (2020a). New bat locality records from Cuba with emphasis on the Province of Matanzas. Novitates Caribaea 15: 96-116.

Orihuela, Johanset et al. (2020b). Late Holocene land vertebrate fauna from Cueva de los Nesofontes, Western Cuba: stratigraphy, last appearance dates, diversity and paleoecology. bioRxiv preprint. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.17.909663

Orihuela, Johanset, Pérez Orozco, Leonel, Álvarez Licourt, Jorge L., Viera Muñoz, Ricardo A., and Santana Barani, Candido. (2020c). Late Holocene land vertebrate fauna from Cueva de los Nesofontes, Western Cuba: Stratigraphy, chronology, diversity, and paleoecology. Palaeontologia Electronica, 23(3):a57. https://doi.org/10.26879/995

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

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