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Cynopterus
Cuvier, 1824
- short-nosed fruit bats
(mammal)
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Entity:
Cynopterina (Subtribe)
..Aethalops (Genus) - pygmy fruit bat
..Alionycteris (Genus)
..Balionycteris (Genus) - spotted-winged fruit bat
..Chironax (Genus) - black-capped fruit bat
..Dyacopterus (Genus)
..Haplonycteris (Genus) - Fischer's pygmy fruit bat
..Latidens (Genus)
..Megaerops (Genus)
..Otopteropus (Genus)
..Penthetor (Genus) - dusky fruit bat
..Ptenochirus (Genus)
..Sphaerias (Genus) - mountain fruit bat
..Thoopterus (Genus) - short-nosed fruit bat
..Cynopterus (Genus) - short-nosed fruit bats
....Cynopterus brachyotis (Species) - lesser dog-faced fruit bat
....Cynopterus horsfieldii (Species) - Horsfield's fruit bat
....Cynopterus luzoniensis (Species)
....Cynopterus minutus (Species)
....Cynopterus nusatenggara (Species)
....Cynopterus sphinx (Species) - short-nosed fruit bat
....Cynopterus titthaecheilus (Species)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
F. Cuvier, 1824
Original name
:
Cuvier, F. 1824. Dentes des Mammifères: 248.
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:
Types
Type of
:
Cynopterina
(Subtribe)
Gray, 1866
Type, by synonymy
:
Cynopterus sphinx
(Vahl, 1797)
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
kortneusvleerhonden
Ref:
B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
short-nosed fruit bats
:
dog-faced fruit bats
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