Cubanycteris silvai Mancina & García-Rivera, 2005
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Morgan & Czaplewski, 2025:309)
Last record: Late Quaternary (Morgan & Czaplewski, 2025:309)
Distribution & Habitat
Cuba
Biology & Ecology
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 García-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
Morgan, Gary S. and Czaplewski, Nicholas J. (2025). The North American fossil record of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from cave and karst deposits. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 87(4): 265-313. https://doi.org/10.4311/2024pa0116
Rayfield, Kristen M., Cooke, Siobhán B., Mychajliw, Alexis M., Turvey, Samuel T., Upham, Nathan, Vaccaro, Sarah and Dávalos, Liliana M. (2026). Interactions between intrinsic and extrinsic factors shape island bat survival and extirpation in a global extinction hotspot. Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/evolinnean/kzag014
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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