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THE RED FIG-EATING BAT STENODERMA RUFUM DESMAREST FOUND ALIVE IN THE WEST INDIES

THE RED FIG-EATING BAT STENODERMA RUFUM DESMAREST FOUND ALIVE IN THE WEST INDIES THE RED FIG-EATING BAT STENODERMA RUFUM DESMAREST FOUiN7D ALIVE IN THE WEST INDIES by E. Raymond HALL and James W. BEE Museum Nat. Hist., The University of Kansas Sternoderma rufum n*etait connu jusqu'ä präsent que par une peau conservee au Museum de Paris (type), sans provenance procise, et par des restes fossiles provenant de Porto Rico. Les auteurs decrivent la capture de 3 specimens vivants a St John Island, Virgin Islands, en 1957. Us decrivent cette forme rcmarquable dont ils donnent les caractcres diff£rentiels et les mensurations. Until now Stenoderma rufum has been known only from one skin with skull reported in 1816 from an unknown part of the world and from a group of fossil fragments found a hundred years later in a cave in Puerto Rico. The capture of three specimens on St. John Island, Virgin Islands, in 1957, therefore, is noteworthy. The history of Stenoderma is well outlined by Dr. Harold E. Anthony (1918 : 354) in his « The indigenous land mammals of Porto Rico, living and extinct » where he wrote as follows : « For over a century Stenoderma rufum has been an enigma. It was described by Etienne St-Hilaire Geoffroy in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mammalia - International Journal of the Systematics, Biology and Ecology of Mammals de Gruyter

THE RED FIG-EATING BAT STENODERMA RUFUM DESMAREST FOUND ALIVE IN THE WEST INDIES

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de Gruyter
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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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0025-1461
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1864-1547
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10.1515/mamm.1960.24.1.67
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THE RED FIG-EATING BAT STENODERMA RUFUM DESMAREST FOUiN7D ALIVE IN THE WEST INDIES by E. Raymond HALL and James W. BEE Museum Nat. Hist., The University of Kansas Sternoderma rufum n*etait connu jusqu'ä präsent que par une peau conservee au Museum de Paris (type), sans provenance procise, et par des restes fossiles provenant de Porto Rico. Les auteurs decrivent la capture de 3 specimens vivants a St John Island, Virgin Islands, en 1957. Us decrivent cette forme rcmarquable dont ils donnent les caractcres diff£rentiels et les mensurations. Until now Stenoderma rufum has been known only from one skin with skull reported in 1816 from an unknown part of the world and from a group of fossil fragments found a hundred years later in a cave in Puerto Rico. The capture of three specimens on St. John Island, Virgin Islands, in 1957, therefore, is noteworthy. The history of Stenoderma is well outlined by Dr. Harold E. Anthony (1918 : 354) in his « The indigenous land mammals of Porto Rico, living and extinct » where he wrote as follows : « For over a century Stenoderma rufum has been an enigma. It was described by Etienne St-Hilaire Geoffroy in

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Mammalia - International Journal of the Systematics, Biology and Ecology of Mammals – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1960

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