| The Lesser Antilles, extending some 500 miles from Anguilla on the north to Grenada on the south, form an archipelago connecting the Greater Antilles with Trinidad and the South American mainland.¹) Bats comprise the major segment of the extant mammalian fauna of the Lesser Antillean islands and the distribution and variation of chiropterans in this area long has interested systematists and zoogeographers. A revival of this interest in the past decade has resulted in a number of published contributions — KOOPMAN (1958, 1959, 1968), HUSSON (1960), DE LA TORRE (1966), DE LA TORRE & SCHWARTZ (1966), JONES & SCHWARTZ (1967), SCHWARTZ & JONES (1967). Still, much remains to be learned. Nineteen species of bats are on record from the Lesser Antilles.... |
