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n. 1. (Zool.) Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; - said of certain bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris. See Vampire.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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But one group of bats in Central America and the Caribbean, known as New World leaf-nosed bats, have evolved a wide range of diets, and have the skulls and teeth to match.
The hemoglobin from Leaf-nosed Viper (Eristocophis macmahonii) was analyzed to better understand interspecies relationship among various snakes at the molecular level.
Tainan Bureau of Cultural Affairs Director Yeh Tse-shan told reporters that the water purification area is a rich ecological environment, and the water purification building has long been the habitat for Formosan leaf-nosed bats, which are a rare ecological resource.
Smoky, leaf-nosed and vesper are all species of which creature?
A fifth species, the Trident Leaf-nosed Bat, has a similarly extravagant conk with three fleshy extensions to the top of the noseleaf and a sixth, the Persian Leaf-nosed Bat, may occur here but is not confirmed.
Then they offer detailed accounts of the family Emballonurdiae (sac-winged bats), family Phyllostomidae (leaf-nosed bats), family Mormoopidae (mustached bats), family Noctilionidae (bulldog bats), family Molossidae (free-tailed bats), and family Vespertillionidae (common bats).
Identification of a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-like virus in a leaf-nosed bat in Nigeria.
Now she's behind the first GPS tracking project to analyse the flight patterns of leaf-nosed bats.
Cat Ba is rich in biodiversity, with several new species -- among them the leopard gecko and a new kind of leaf-nosed bat -- discovered in recent years, but hunting has drastically depleted most of the larger wild mammals.
1--Asellia tridens = Trident leaf-nosed bat Description: This is a small leaf-nosed bat that covered by grayish fur, Wing and interfemoral membrane is hairless, triangle and tail is well-developed and grater part in.
When scientists first spotted Griffin's leaf-nosed bat in Chu Mom Ray National Park in 2008, the animal was almost mistaken for a known species, the great leaf-nosed bat, said Vu Dinh Thong, of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology in Hanoi.

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