Cubanycteris silvai Mancina & Garcia-Rivera, 2005
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Quaternary (Mancina et al., 2005)
This species is only known from sub-fossil remains, of Quaternary age according to (Mancina et al., 2005).
Distribution
Cuba
Biology
Hypodigm
Holotype: IES 1.5540 (Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, La Habana, field number 033)
3 Paratypes:
MNHNcu 3787 (Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, La Habana, field number 029)
IES 1.5542 (field number 030)
IES 1.5542 (field number 034)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Mancina, Carlos A., and, Garcia-Rivera, Lainet. (2005). New Genus and Species of Fossil Bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Cuba. Caribbean Journal of Science 41(1): 22-27.
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
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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