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The Cuban fig-eating bat, or white-shouldered bat, (Phyllops falcatus) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae, found only in the Caribbean. It is the sole extant species in the genus Phyllops, although two other species, P. vetus and P. silvai, are known from fossils.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllops, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2433168	https://www.gbif.org/species/2433168
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	159102	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=159102

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Chiroptera : Phyllostomidae : Phyllops

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Scrotifera	Waddell et al. 1999
order	Chiroptera	Blumenbach 1779
family	Phyllostomidae	Gray 1825
subfamily	Stenodermatinae
tribe	Stenodermatini
subtribe	Stenodermatina
genus	Phyllops	Peters 1865

Common Name

fig-eating bat

Scientific Name

Phyllops Peters, 1865

Name Published In

Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin vol.1865 p.356

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Phyllops	genus	belongs to Stenodermatina	stated with evidence	Suárez and Díaz-Franco, 2003

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

0.13 - 0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Chiroptera)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Phyllostomidae)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Chiroptera)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. Suárez and S. Díaz-Franco. 2003. A new fossil bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomatidae) from a Quaternary cave deposit in Cuba. Caribbean Journal of Science 39(3):371-377

Common Name(s)

Fig-eating Bat

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllops

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Phyllops falcatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phyllops silvai ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Phyllops vetus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1865	Phyllops Peters
2003	Phyllops Suárez and Díaz-Franco p. 373

References

Suárez W., Díaz-Franco S. (2003) A new fossil bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomatidae) from a Quaternary cave deposit in Cuba, Caribbean Journal of Science 39 3, 371-377

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Baker, Robert J., Steven R. Hoofer, Calvin A. Porter, and Ronald A. Van Den Bussche, 2003: Diversification among New World Leaf-nosed Bats: an evolutionary hypothesis and classification inferred from digenomic congruence of DNA sequence. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech University, no. 230. 1-32. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Cirranello, Andrea, Nancy B. Simmons, Sergio Solari, and Robert J. Baker, 2016: Morphological diagnoses of higher-level phyllostomid taxa (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Acta Chiropterologica, vol. 18, no. 1. 39-71. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Simmons, Nancy B. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Order Chiroptera. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 312-529. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Gardner, Alfred L., ed., 2007: null. Mammals of South America, Vol. 1: Marsupials, Xenarthrans, Shrews, and Bats. xx + 669. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

MonatsBer. Akad. Wiss. Berlin '1865 (1866) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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