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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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