Definition of Phyllostomidae

1. Noun. New World leaf-nosed bats.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Phyllostomidae

Phyllocladus asplenifolius
Phyllocladus trichomanoides
Phyllodoce
Phyllodoce breweri
Phyllodoce caerulea
Phylloporus
Phylloporus boletinoides
Phyllorhynchus
Phylloscopus
Phylloscopus sibilatrix
Phyllostachys
Phyllostachys aurea
Phyllostachys bambusoides
Phyllostachys nigra
Phyllostomatidae
Phyllostomidae (current term)
Phyllostomus
Phyllostomus hastatus
Phylloxera vitifoleae
Phylloxeridae
PhyloCode
PhysEd
Physalis alkekengi
Physalis ixocarpa
Physalis peruviana
Physalis philadelphica
Physalis pruinosa
Physalis pubescens
Physalis viscosa
Physaloptera

Literary usage of Phyllostomidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"Mammalia.—The following genera are not found in any other part of the Nearctic region. Macrotus (Phyllostomidae), one species in California; ..."

2. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A...description of Man and Nature in the by Georg Hartwig (1877)
"The general food of the phyllostomidae consists, however, in vespertine and ... Some of the phyllostomidae have a tongue once as long again as the head, ..."

3. Monograph of the Asiatic Chiroptera: And Catalogue of the Species of Bats in by Indian Museum, George Edward Dobson (1876)
"... among the Emballonuridae is further shown by the microscopical characters of the fur, in which it agrees with that family and with the Phyllostomidae ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1890)
"... distinctive to warrant the recommendation that they be taken in all discriminating studies, not only of the Phyllostomidae, but of the entire order. ..."

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