Integrated Taxonomic Information System - Report
Go to Print Version

Brachyphylla  Gray, 1834
Taxonomic Serial No.: 180059

(Download Help) Brachyphylla TSN 180059

 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): Antillean fruit-eating bats [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2021   
       

 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  
                                        FamilyPhyllostomidae Gray, 1825 – New World leaf-nosed bats  
                                           SubfamilyGlossophaginae Bonaparte, 1845  
                                              TribeBrachyphyllini Gray, 1866 – fruit-eating bats, flower bats  
                                                 SubtribeBrachyphyllina Gray, 1866  
                                                    GenusBrachyphylla Gray, 1834 – Antillean fruit-eating bats  
    Direct Children:  
                                                       Species Brachyphylla cavernarum Gray, 1834 – Antillean Fruit-eating Bat 
                                                       Species Brachyphylla nana Miller, 1902 – Cuban Fruit-eating Bat 
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Alfred L. Gardner  
  Notes: Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA   
  Reference for: Brachyphylla    
       
  Expert: Don E. Wilson  
  Notes: Smithsonian Institution, MRC 108 Washington DC 20560-0108   
  Reference for: Brachyphylla    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Brachyphylla   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Baker, Robert J., Steven R. Hoofer, Calvin A. Porter, and Ronald A. Van Den Bussche  
  Publication Date: 2003   
  Article/Chapter Title: Diversification among New World Leaf-nosed Bats: an evolutionary hypothesis and classification inferred from digenomic congruence of DNA sequence   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech University, no. 230   
  Page(s): 1-32   
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 0149-175X   
  Notes: Available online at http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/publications/opapers/   
  Reference for: Brachyphylla   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner  
  Publication Date: 1987   
  Article/Chapter Title: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Resource Publication, no. 166   
  Page(s): 79   
  Publisher: United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service   
  Publication Place: Washington, D.C., USA   
  ISBN/ISSN:    
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Brachyphylla   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Cirranello, Andrea, Nancy B. Simmons, Sergio Solari, and Robert J. Baker  
  Publication Date: 2016   
  Article/Chapter Title: Morphological diagnoses of higher-level phyllostomid taxa (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Acta Chiropterologica, vol. 18, no. 1   
  Page(s): 39-71   
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 1508-1109   
  Notes: doi: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.1.002   
  Reference for: Brachyphylla   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Dávalos, Liliana M., Andrea L. Cirranello, Jonathan H. Geisler, and Nancy B. Simmons  
  Publication Date: 2012   
  Article/Chapter Title: Understanding phylogenetic incongruence: lessons from phyllostomid bats   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. 87, no. 4   
  Page(s): 991-1024   
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 1469-185X   
  Notes: doi: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00240.x ; available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00240.x/abstract   
  Reference for: Brachyphylla   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Gardner, Alfred L., ed.  
  Publication Date: 2008   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammals of South America, Vol. 1: Marsupials, Xenarthrans, Shrews, and Bats   
  Page(s): xx + 669   
  Publisher: University of Chicaco Press   
  Publication Place: Chicago, Illinois, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-226-28240-6   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Brachyphylla   
       
  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: Brachyphylla   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2019   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 9: Bats   
  Page(s): 1008   
  Publisher: Lynx Edicions   
  Publication Place: Barcelona, Spain   
  ISBN/ISSN: 978-84-16728190   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Brachyphylla   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing   
  Page(s): xviii + 1207   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Brachyphylla   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division:    
       
  Jurisdiction/Origin:    
 

 

    

 Comments
       
  Comment: Comments: Revised by Swanepoel and Genoways (1978). A key to this genus was presented by Swanepoel and Genoways (1983a)  
 

 

    

 
 Subordinate Taxa  Rank  Verified Standards Met  Verified Min Standards Met  Unverified Percent Standards Met
 
LOADING...
 

A gray graphic bar
Search on:  Any Name or TSN  Common Name  Scientific Name  TSN
     


Disclaimer: ITIS taxonomy is based on the latest scientific consensus available, and is provided as a general reference source for interested parties. However, it is not a legal authority for statutory or regulatory purposes. While every effort has been made to provide the most reliable and up-to-date information available, ultimate legal requirements with respect to species are contained in provisions of treaties to which the United States is a party, wildlife statutes, regulations, and any applicable notices that have been published in the Federal Register. For further information on U.S. legal requirements with respect to protected taxa, please contact the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

A gray bar