Artibeus anthonyi

{{Short description|Extinct species of bat}}

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| fossil_range = Late Quaternary

| extinct = yes

| genus = Artibeus

| species = anthonyi

| authority = (Woloszyn & Silva Taboda, 1977)

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Artibeus anthonyi, also known as Anthony's fruit-eating bat, is an extinct species of bat from the Late Quaternary of Cuba.{{cite journal|last1=Orihuela|first1=Johanset|last2=Pérez Orozco|first2=Leonel|last3=Álvarez Licourt|first3=Jorge L.|last4=Viera Muñoz|first4=Ricardo A.|last5=Santana Barani|first5=Candido|title=Late Holocene land vertebrate fauna from Cueva de los Nesofontes, Western Cuba: Stratigraphy, chronology, diversity, and paleoecology|journal=Palaeontologia Electronica|year=2020|volume=23|issue=3|pages=a57|issn=1935-3952|doi=10.26879/995|doi-access=free}}

Anthony's fruit-eating bat shows the greatest morphological divergence compared with extant Artibeus species.{{cite journal |last1=Balseiro |first1=Fernando |last2=Mancina |first2=Carlos A. |last3=Guerrero |first3=Jose A. |title=Taxonomic Status of Artibeus anthonyi (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), a Fossil Bat from Cuba |journal=Journal of Mammalogy |date=December 2009 |volume=90 |issue=6 |pages=1487–1494 |doi=10.1644/08-MAMM-A-372R1.1|doi-access=free }}