Definition of Choeronycteris

1. Noun. A genus of Phyllostomatidae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Choeronycteris

Chlorophyta
Chloroxylon
Chloroxylon swietenia
Chlorura
Chlorura chlorura
Choanotaenia infundibulum
Chocenyo
Chochenyo
Choco tinamou
Choco tinamous
Choctaw
Choctaw turn
Choctaws
Chod
Chodzko's reflex
Choeronycteris
Choeronycteris mexicana
Cholargos
Cholargus
Cholmondeley
Choloepus
Choloepus didactylus
Choloepus hoffmanni
Cholon
Chomskian
Chomsky
Chomskyan
Chondrichthyes
Chondrus crispus
Chongjin

Literary usage of Choeronycteris

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

1. Reports on Zoology for 1843, 1844 by Andreas Johann Wagner, Franz Hermann Troschel, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson, Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1847)
"The genus Glossophaga has been divided by the same naturalist, in his ' Fauna Peruana,' into two sub-genera, Glossophaga, and choeronycteris, Licht. a. ..."

2. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"Maternity roosts (individual or colonial) of choeronycteris mexicana, Myotis velifer, ... choeronycteris mexicana, Leptonycteris curasoae, and most Tadarida ..."

3. Index Generum Mammalium: A List of the Genera and Families of Mammals by Theodore Sherman Palmer (1904)
"... Museums in Berlin fanden wir eine als choeronycteris opercularis ... für das Subgenus die bezeichnende Benennung choeronycteris. ..."

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