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1 January 2010 New records of bats from the British Virgin Islands
Gary G. Kwiecinski, Jean-Pierre Bacle, Kevel C. Lindsay, Hugh H. Genoways
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Abstract

As currently understood the bat fauna of the British Virgin Islands consists of five species — Noctilio leporinus, Brachyphylla cavernarum, Artibeus jamaicensis, Tadarida brasiliensis, and Molossus molossus. Our knowledge of distribution of bats in the British Virgin Islands is far more limited than that in the United States Virgin Islands. As part of ongoing research on the bats of the Virgin Islands, recent brief surveying periods in the British Virgin Islands have produced new records for some islands. Also, our researching of existing museum collections has discovered unreported new records. Our new data adds information for five species of bats from five islands in the British Virgin Islands—Guana, Jost Van Dyke, Mosquito, Norman, and Tortola.

Copyright 2010 College of Arts and Sciences University of Puerto Rico, Mayagü;ez
Gary G. Kwiecinski, Jean-Pierre Bacle, Kevel C. Lindsay, and Hugh H. Genoways "New records of bats from the British Virgin Islands," Caribbean Journal of Science 46(1), 64-70, (1 January 2010). https://doi.org/10.18475/cjos.v46i1.a8
Published: 1 January 2010
KEYWORDS
biodiversity
Chiroptera
conservation
distribution
Virgin Islands
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