Anthony's Fruit-eating Bat
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''Artibeus anthonyi'', also known as Anthony's fruit-eating bat, is an extinct species of bat from the
Late Quaternary The Holocene ( ) is the current geological epoch. It began approximately 11,650 cal years Before Present (), after the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. The Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene together ...
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. Anthony's fruit-eating bat shows the greatest morphological divergence compared with extant ''
Artibeus The Neotropical fruit bats (''Artibeus'') are a genus of bats within the subfamily Stenodermatinae. The genus consists of 12 species, which are native to Central America, Central and South America, as well as parts of the Caribbean. Description ...
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