Puerto Rican Flower Bat
Encyclopedia
The Puerto Rican Flower Bat (Phyllonycteris major) is an extinct species of bat
from the family Phyllostomidae (leaf-nosed bats). It was endemic to Puerto Rico
and is known only from subfossil skeletal material.
Bat
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera "hand" and pteron "wing") whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, glide rather than fly,...
from the family Phyllostomidae (leaf-nosed bats). It was endemic to Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
and is known only from subfossil skeletal material.