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Synemporion keana

A newly described extinct species of bat endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.

Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Extinct: Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Maui, and Hawaiʻi Island)

Collected 1992 at Barbers Point sinkholes, Oʻahu

 

Specimens retained at the Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawaiʻi)

 

This humerus bone is one of a few bones preserved of this extinct bat.

 

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