-
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...
- its merit. The term
Yinpterochiroptera is
constructed from the
words Pteropodidae (the
family of megabats) and
Yinochiroptera (a term
proposed in 1984...
- 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...
- short-nosed
Indian fruit bat, is a
species of
megabat in the
family Pteropodidae found in
South and
Southeast Asia.
These bats have a
relatively long...
- is part of the
order Chiroptera (bats), and
contains a
single family,
Pteropodidae. The
family is
divided into
between two and six subfamilies, with recent...
-
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...
-
Animalia Phylum:
Chordata class:
Mammalia Order:
Chiroptera Family:
Pteropodidae Genus:
Pteropus Species: †P. subniger
Binomial name †Pteropus subniger...
- 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...
- group, and was
subsequently lost in the
family Pteropodidae. Later, the
genus Rousettus in the
Pteropodidae family evolved a
different mechanism of echolocation...
