Definition of Pteropus hypomelanus

1. Noun. A variety of fruit bat.

Generic synonyms: Fruit Bat, Megabat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pteropus Hypomelanus

Pterocarya
Pterocarya fraxinifolia
Pterocles
Pterocles alchata
Pterocles indicus
Pteroclididae
Pterocnemia
Pterocnemia pennata
Pterodactylidae
Pterodactylus
Pterois
Pteropogon humboltianum
Pteropsida
Pteropus
Pteropus capestratus
Pteropus hypomelanus
Pterosauria
Pterostylis
Ptilocercus
Ptilocrinus
Ptilonorhynchidae
Ptilonorhynchus
Ptilonorhynchus violaceus
Ptloris
Ptloris paradisea
Ptolemaian
Ptolemaic
Ptolemaic dynasty

Literary usage of Pteropus hypomelanus

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

1. List of the Vertebrated Animals Now Or Lately Living in the Gardens of the by London Zoo (London, England), Philip Lutley Sclater (1883)
"pteropus hypomelanus, Temm. Blackish Fruit-Bat. Hit/'. Indian archipelago. a. Deposited, April 29, 1867. See PZ 8. 1868, p. 531. ..."

2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"... as inhabitants of Sarawak (and describes one of them as a new species and the type of a new subgenus), namely:— 1. pteropus hypomelanus, Temm., var. ..."

3. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1858)
"... ESQ., MP ; COLLECTED IN LABUAN BY MR. JAMES MOTLEY. By ROBERT F. TOMES. 1. pteropus hypomelanus.Temm. ..."

4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1868)
"Dr. Peters, to whom the specimen, when dead, had been sent for more accurate examination, had determined it to be pteropus hypomelanus, Temm. (cf. ..."

5. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections by Smithsonian Institution (1903)
"Similar to pteropus hypomelanus and P. lepidus, but color darker and teeth smaller. Color.—Type: back dark hair-brown, sprinkled with silvery whitish hairs, ..."

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