''Monophyllus'', the Antillean long-tongued bats or single leaf bats, is a genus of

bat Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera (). With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out ...

s in the family Phyllostomidae. They are distributed on the

Antilles The Antilles is an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east. The Antillean islands are divided into two smaller groupings: the Greater An ...

Species

It contains the following species: * ''Monophyllus plethodon'' Miller, 1900 —

insular single leaf bat The insular single leaf bat or Lesser Antillean long-tongued bat (''Monophyllus plethodon'') is a species of leaf-nosed bat. It is found on the Lesser Antilles islands in the Caribbean Sea. Taxonomy The insular single leaf bat was species descri ...

, Lesser Antillean long-tongued bat ** †''Monophyllus plethodon frater'' Anthony, 1917 —

Puerto Rican long-nosed bat The Puerto Rican long-nosed bat (''Monophyllus plethodon frater'') is known only from a skull fragment excavated in the large Cathedral Cave near Morovis, Puerto Rico Morovis (, ) is a Morovis barrio-pueblo, town and Municipalities of Puerto ...

** ''Monophyllus plethodon luciae'' Miller, 1902 ** ''Monophyllus plethodon plethodon'' Miller, 1900 * ''Monophyllus redmani'' Leach, 1821 — Leach's single leaf bat, Greater Antillean long-tongued bat ** ''Monophyllus redmani clinedaphus'' Miller, 1900 ** ''Monophyllus redmani portoricensis'' Miller, 1900 ** ''Monophyllus redmani redmani'' Leach, 1821

References

Bat genera Bats of the Caribbean Taxa named by William Elford Leach Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{leafnosed-bat-stub