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Megaderma lyra
Lyre Lyre, n. [OE. lire, OF. lyre, L. lyra, Gr. ?. Cf. Lyra.] 1. (Mus.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry. Note: The lyre was the peculiar instrument of Apollo, the tutelary god of music and poetry. It gave name to the species of verse called lyric, to which it originally furnished an accompaniment 2. (Astron.) One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra. Lyre bat (Zo["o]l.), a small bat (Megaderma lyra), inhabiting India and Ceylon. It is remarkable for the enormous size and curious shape of the nose membrane and ears. Lyre turtle (Zo["o]l.), the leatherback.

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- Megaderma is a genus of bat in the family Megadermatidae. It contains two living species: Lesser false vampire bat (Megaderma spasma) Greater false vampire...
- The lesser false vampire bat (Megaderma spasma) is a bat found in South Asia and Southeast Asia from Sri Lanka and India in the west to Indonesia and...
- Megaderma lyra, when gleaning prey. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 58, 157-64. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Megaderma lyra. Megaderma lyra...
- the two Megaderma species should be in separate genera. The authors of the 2015 paper suggested that the greater false vampire bat, Megaderma lyra, should...
- author compared his specimen to taxa named as species of Megaderma, identifying species Megaderma spasma (lesser false vampire bat) as the closest in resemblance...
- Australian false vampire bat Infrared sensing in vampire bats Species of Megaderma, known as greater or lesser false vampire bat Spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum)...
- they are usually on the defensive. Their predators include bats (esp. Megaderma lyra) and birds such as the white-throated kingfisher. Endoparasitic Haemosporidia...
- Family: Megadermatidae Genus: Megaderma Greater false vampire bat, Megaderma lyra Lesser false vampire bat, Megaderma spasma Family: Rhinolophidae Subfamily:...
- in 1906, separating the type species from it placement in the genus Megaderma. The taxonomic placement is to family Megadermatidae of the suborder Microchiroptera...
- Taphozous perforatus LC Family: Megadermatidae Genus: Megaderma Greater false vampire bat, Megaderma lyra LC Family: Rhinolophidae Subfamily: Rhinolophinae...