Phyllops vetus Anthony, 1917
Cuban fig-eating bat, Lesser falcate-winged bat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Morgan & Czaplewski, 2025:309)
Last record: Late Quaternary (Morgan & Czaplewski, 2025:309)
Distribution & Habitat
Cuba and Isle of Pines
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Anthony, H. E. (1917). A new rabbit and a new bat from Neotropical regions. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 37: 335-337.
Other references:
Anthony, H. E. (1919). Mammals collected in eastern Cuba in 1917. With descriptions of two new species. Bulletin of American Museum of Natural History 41: 625-643.
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
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Morgan, Gary S. (2001). Patterns of extinction in West Indian bats, pp. 369-407. In: Woods, C. A. and Sergile, F. E. (eds.). Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives (Second ed.). Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420039481.ch20
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
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. 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
Silva Taboada, G., and B. W. Woloszyn. (1975). Phyllops vetus (Mammalia: Chiroptera) en Isla de Pinos. Misc. Zool. 1: 3.
Suárez, William and Diaz-Franco, Stephen. (2003). A New Fossil Bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from a Quaternary Cave Deposit in Cuba. Caribbean Journal of Science 39(3): 371-377.
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
Wilson, D. E. and Reeder, D. M. (2005). Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Third edition. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.
https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/6516/phyllops-vetus-lesser-falcate-winged