Red fruit bat

Red fruit bat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Stenoderma
E. Geoffroy, 1818
Species:
S. rufum
Binomial name
Stenoderma rufum
Desmarest, 1820

The red fruit bat or red fig-eating bat (Stenoderma rufum) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae, in the monotypic genus Stenoderma.[2] It is found in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

  1. ^ Rodriguez Duran, A. (2016). "Stenoderma rufum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T20743A22065638. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T20743A22065638.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Gannon, M.R., Rodríguez-Durán, M., Kurta, A., and Willig, M.R. Stenoderma rufum Desmarest, Red Fig-eating Bat or Murciélago Frutero Nativo (website), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut. Downloaded 10 November 2012 from http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/willig/Research/Puerto%20Rico/stenoderma.html