Definition of Genus Macrotus

1. Noun. Leafnose bats.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Macrotus

genus Lythrum
genus Macaca
genus Macadamia
genus Machaeranthera
genus Macleaya
genus Maclura
genus Macowanites
genus Macrocephalon
genus Macrocheira
genus Macroclemys
genus Macrodactylus
genus Macronectes
genus Macropus
genus Macrothelypteris
genus Macrotis
genus Macrotus (current term)
genus Macrotyloma
genus Macrozamia
genus Macrozoarces
genus Madia
genus Madoqua
genus Maeandra
genus Magicicada
genus Magnolia
genus Mahonia
genus Maia
genus Maianthemum
genus Maja
genus Majorana
genus Makaira

Literary usage of Genus Macrotus

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

1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1905)
"A REVISION OF THE MAMMALIAN genus Macrotus. BY JAMES AG REHN. During the preparation of this paper a series of one hundred and eighty-five specimens have ..."

2. Monograph of the Bats of North America by Harrison Allen (1864)
"The genus Macrotus was established by Gray in the Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1843, p., upon specimens of M. ..."

3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1919)
"... of the mandibles are white and quite fresh, showing that this bat is occasionally to be found frequenting >A Revision of the Mammalian genus Macrotus ..."

4. Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1872)
"They have often been called Horse-shoe Bats, from the form of the front of the nose-leaf. The genus Macrotus is represented in North America by a single ..."

5. The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology by James Samuelson, William Crookes (1865)
"With the exception of the genus Macrotus the ears generally stand asunder from one another, as in our Horseshoe Bats ..."

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