Stenoderma rufum rufum Desmarest, 1820:117
Red fig-eating bat, Desmarest's red fruit bat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Artibaeus undatus Gervais, 1855
Conservation Status
Last record: 1816
Rediscovered (Jones et al., 1971)
IUCN RedList status: Vulnerable
Distribution
St. John & St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Desmarest, A. G. (1820). Mammalogie, ou description des espéces de mammifères. Paris, 1: 1-276.
Other references:
Allen, Glover M. (1942). Extinct and vanishing mammals of the Western Hemisphere with the marine species of all the oceans. New York, N.Y.: American Committee for International Wildlife Protection, Special Publications 11: 1-620.
Baillie, Jonathan and Groombridge, Brian. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 448 pp.
Gannon, M. R., M. R. Willig, and J. K. Jones, Jr. (1992). Morphometric variation, measurement error, and fluctuating asymmetry in the red fig-eating bat (Stenoderma rufum). Texas J. Sci. 44(4): 389-404.
Genoways, Hugh H. and Baker, Robert J. (1972). Stenoderma rufum. Mammalian Species 18: 1-4, 4 figs.
Hall, E. Raymond and Bee, James W. (1960). The red fig-eating bat Stenoderma rufum Desmarest found alive in the West Indies. Mammalia 24: 67-75. [Abstract]
Hall, E. Raymond and Tamsitt, J. R. (1968). A new subspecies of the red fig-eating bat from Puerto Rico. Life Sci. Occas. Papers, Royal Ontario Mus. 11: 1-5.
Jones, J. Knox Jnr., Genoways, Hugh H. and Baker, Robert J. (1971). Morphological variation in Stenoderma rufum. Journal of Mammalogy 52(1): 244-247.
Rodriguez, A. and Dávalos, L. (2011). Stenoderma rufum. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 21 July 2013.
Simmons, N.B. and A.L. Cirranello. 2023. Bat Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic database. Version 1.3. Accessed on 06/18/2023.
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