Insular Single Leaf Bat - Monophyllus plethodon
( Miller, 1900 )

 

 

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Subspecies: Unknown
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CITES Status: NOT LISTED
IUCN Status: Least Concern
U.S. ESA Status: NOT LISTED

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Life Span: in the Wild
Life Span: in Captivity

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Habitat:
This species has been collected in a variety of situations. The area where it occurs was described as a steep and wooded ravine near sugar cane fields; also it was trapped in banana groves, across a trail that separated woodlands from a Theobroma (cacao) grove, and in dense rainforest. It roosts in caves. Females taken on Dominica between March and April were gravid (Homan and Jones 1975); pregnant females found in January (Pedersen et al. 1996) on Montserrat.

Range:
This species is known from Lesser Antilles from Anguilla to St. Vincent and Barbados (Pedersen et al. 2013). There are fossils records from Puerto Rico (Simmons 2005), but no recent records on the island (A. Rodriguez-Herrera pers. comm.). It is known from sea level to 550 m (Schwartz and Jones 1967).

Conservation:
The species is found in nature reserves and protected areas.

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