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Zoogeography Of Antillean Bats, Robert J. Baker, Hugh H. Genoways
Zoogeography Of Antillean Bats, Robert J. Baker, Hugh H. Genoways
University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers
Analysis of the bat fauna of the Antillean Islands suggest that the most probable source of invasion of the islands by bats is by overwater dispersal. The bat fauna of ·the Greater Antilles is unique, a percentage of endemism on each island being over 50 percent except for the Virgin Islands which has 33 percent endemics.
The richest bat fauna in the Antilles is on Cuba (32 species) followed by Jamaica (23 species) then Hispaniola (17 species) and Puerto Rico (16 species). The number of species found on Cuba is probably the result of the island's proximity to Central and …