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Mormoops magna  Silva-Taboada, 1974
Taxonomic Serial No.: 946075

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): Giant Ghost-faced Bat [English]
  
       
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderChiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 – morcego, quiróptero, bats  
                                  SuborderYangochiroptera Koopman, 1984  
                                     SuperfamilyNoctilionoidea Gray, 1821  
                                        FamilyMormoopidae Saussure, 1860 – ghost-faced bats, moustached bats, naked-backed bats  
                                           GenusMormoops Leach, 1821 – ghost-faced bats  
                                              SpeciesMormoops magna Silva-Taboada, 1974 – Giant Ghost-faced Bat  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Simmons, Nancy B. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title: Order Chiroptera   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 312-529   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Mormoops magna, Giant Ghost-faced Bat [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Taboada, Gilbert Silva  
  Publication Date: 1974   
  Article/Chapter Title: Fossil Chiroptera from Cave Deposits in Dentral Cuba, with Description of Two New Species (Genera Pteronotus and Mormoops) and the First West Indian Record of Mormoops megalophylla   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, vol. 19, no. 3   
  Page(s): 33-73   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 2299-6060   
  Notes: Online ISSN: 2300-0163   
  Reference for: original description   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Caribbean  
       
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 Comments
       
  Comment: Status: Extinct; IUCN 2003 - Not evaluated; not considered in IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001)  
    Comments: Known only from subfossils, but found in the same sedimentary deposits as remains of many extant bat species (Silva-Taboada, 1974, 1979)  
 

 

    

 
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