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Definition of Phyllostomidae
1. Noun. New World leaf-nosed bats.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Microchiroptera, Suborder Microchiroptera
Member holonyms: Genus Macrotus, Genus Phyllostomus, Phyllostomus, Choeronycteris, Genus Choeronycteris
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phyllostomidae
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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