Tonatia saurophila saurophila Koopman & Williams, 1951:11
Stripe-headed round-eared bat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Tonatia bidens saurophila Koopman & Williams, 1951:11
Conservation Status
Extinct (Morgan & Czaplewski, 2025:309)
Last record: Late Quaternary (Morgan & Czaplewski, 2025:309)
Distribution & Habitat
Jamaica
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Koopman, Karl F. and Williams, Ernest E. (1951). Fossil chiroptera collected by H. E. Anthony in Jamaica, 1919-1920. American Museum Novitates 1519: 1-29.
Other references:
Alcover, Josep Antoni et al. (1998). Mammal Species of the World: Additional Data on Insular Mammals. American Museum Novitates 3248, 29 pp., 1 table.
Basantes, Mateo et al. (2020). Systematics and Taxonomy of Tonatia saurophila Koopman & Williams, 1951 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae). ZooKeys 915: 59-86.
Genoways, Hugh H., Bickham, John W., Baker, Robert J. and Phillips, Carleton J. (2005). Bats of Jamaica. Special Publications of the Museum of Texas Tech University 48: 1-155.
Koopman, K. F. (1976). Zoogeography, pp. 39-47. In: Baker, R. J., Jones, J. K., Jr., and Carter, D. C. (eds.). Biology of Bats of the New World Family Phyllostomatidae, Part I. Special Publications of the Museum, Texas Tech University 10: 1-218.
Koopman, K. F. and Williams, E. E. (1951). Fossil Chiroptera collected by H. E. Anthony in Jamaica, 1919–1920. American Museum Novitates 1519: 1-29.
Morgan, Gary S. (1993). Quaternary land vertebrates of Jamaica, pp. 417-442. In: Wright, R. M. and Robinson, E. (eds.). Biostratigraphy of Jamaica. Memoir of the Geological Society of America 182: x + 1-492.
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. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press.
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
Morgan, Gary S. and Woods, C. A. (1986). Extinction and the zoogeography of West Indian land mammals. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 28: 167-203.
Sampaio, E., Lim, B., Peters, S., Miller, B., Cuarón, A. D. and de Grammont, P. C. (2008). Tonatia saurophila. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 09 May 2015.
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
Williams, E. E. (1952). Additional notes on fossil and subfossil bats from Jamaica. Journal of Mammalogy 33: 171-179.
Williams, S. L., Willig, M. R. and Reid, F. A. (1995). Review of the Tonatia bidens complex (Mammalia: Chiroptera), with descriptions of two new subspecies. Journal of Mammalogy 76: 612-626.