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Megabats constitute the
family Pteropodidae of the
order Chiroptera (bats). They are also
called fruit bats, Old
World fruit bats, or—especially the genera...
- Two new
suborders have been proposed;
Yinpterochiroptera includes the
Pteropodidae, or
megabat family, as well as the
families Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae...
- This is the list of bats of Australia, a sub-list of the list of
mammals of Australia.
About 75 bat
species are
known to
occur in Australia, Lord Howe...
- its merit. The term
Yinpterochiroptera is
constructed from the
words Pteropodidae (the
family of megabats) and
Yinochiroptera (a term
proposed in 1984...
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fossil record.
Relative to the
current number of
extant species, the
Pteropodidae has one of the most
incomplete fossil records of any bat group. As of...
- This is a list of
mammals of Europe. It
includes all
mammals currently found in
Europe (from
northeast Atlantic to Ural
Mountains and
northern slope of...
- This is a list of Australia-New
Guinea species extinct in the
Holocene that
covers extinctions from the
Holocene epoch, a
geologic epoch that
began about...
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Mammals in
Western Australia include both
native and
introduced species. Family:
Tachyglossidae Genus:
Tachyglossus Short-beaked echidna, T. aculeatus...
- kalang, or kalong, is a
southeast Asian species of
megabat in the
family Pteropodidae.
Despite its
scientific name, it
feeds exclusively on fruits, nectar...
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Vespertilio (16): 203–204 (
Pteropodidae). Fujita, M. S.; Tuttle, M. D. (1991). "Flying
Foxes (Chiroptera:
Pteropodidae):
Threatened Animals of Key Ecological...
