| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | MAMMALIA | CHIROPTERA | PHYLLOSTOMIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Monophyllus plethodon | |||
| Species Authority: | Miller, 1900 | |||
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| Taxonomic Notes: | Includes luciae and frater; see Schwartz and Jones (1967), Hall (1981), and Timm and Genoways (2003). | |||
| Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 | |||
| Year Assessed: | 2008 | |||
| Assessor/s: | Rodriguez, A. & Dávalos, L. | |||
| Reviewer/s: | Medellín, R. (Chiroptera Red List Authority) & Schipper, J. (Global Mammal Assessment Team) | |||
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Justification: Listed as Least Concern because its presumed large population, and because its habitat is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category. |
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| Range Description: | This species is known from Lesser Antilles from Anguilla to St. Vincent and Barbados. There are fossils records from Puerto Rico (Simmons, 2005). It is known from sea level to 550 m (Schwartz and Jones, 1967). It is not found in Puerto Rico (Rodriguez-Herrera pers. comm.). |
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Native:
Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Barbados; Dominica; Guadeloupe; Martinique; Montserrat; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Possibly extinct:
Puerto Rico
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| Population: | There is no information on population. |
| Population Trend: |
Unknown
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| Habitat and Ecology: | 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 wood-lands from a Theobroma grove, and in dense rainforest. It roosts in caves. Females taken on Dominica between March and April were gravid (Homan and Jones, 1975). |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
| Major Threat(s): | Mining and tourism in the caves. |
| Conservation Actions: | Fond in protected areas. |
| Citation: | Rodriguez, A. & Dávalos, L. 2008. Monophyllus plethodon. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2012. |
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