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Definition of Macrotus
1. Noun. Large-eared greyish bat of southern California and northwestern Mexico.
Generic synonyms: Leaf-nosed Bat, Leafnose Bat
Group relationships: Genus Macrotus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Macrotus
Literary usage of 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)
"macrotus Saussure, Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 2' serie, XII, p. 486. 1864.
... macrotus Baird, Rep. US and Mexican Boundary Survey, Vol. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1890)
"Establishment, Description of a New Species of macrotus. By Harrison Allen.
(Bead before the American Philosophical Society, March 21, 1890. ..."
3. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1915)
"The differences between the sexes led to their being described as distinct species,
our types of circumcincta being all males, the macrotus all females. ..."
4. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum by George Edward Dobson (1878)
"macrotus, Gray, PZS 1843, p. 21. Muzzle conical, elongated; nose-leaf small, at
the extremity of the muzzle, horseshoe-shaped in front, triangular behind, ..."
5. Monograph of the Bats of North America by Harrison Allen (1864)
"macrotus californicus, BAIRD, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila. 1858,117.—IB. Rep.
US and Mex. Bound. Surv. II, 1859, Mammals, p. 4, pi. i, fig. 2. Description. ..."
6. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1919)
"Forty-three specimens of the living macrotus were collected as follows: ...
macrotus is a very common bat in eastern Cuba and was noted in most of the caves ..."
7. The Families and Genera of Bats by Gerrit Smith Miller (1907)
"427, April, 1904, issued June 29, 1904. Type-species. — macrotus ... good reason
for rejecting the name macrotus of Gray on account of the previous use of ..."
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