Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19691

    Bats

    Date
    1879
    Creator
    Philibert Charles Berjeau (1845 - 1927, French) , Illustrator
    Creator - Organisation
    Mintern Bros, Lithographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    41158
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 310mm
    width (page): 241mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bat
    Description
    Zoological study of eight species of bat, including:

    1. Peter’s tube-nosed bat, Harpiola grisea, referred to in the associated text as Vesperugo abigularis.
    2. Yucatan yellow bat, Rhogeessa aeneus, referred to here as Vesperugo parvulus.
    3. Geoffroy’s tailless bat, Anoura geoffroyi, referred to here as Glossonycteris lasiopyga.
    4. The wing of a Saccopteryx sac-winged bat, referred to here as Saccopteryx plicata.
    5. Greater long-nosed bat, Leptonycteris nivalis, referred to here as Ischnoglossa nivalis.
    6. Hairy-legged vampire bat, Diphylla ecaudata, referred to here as the same.
    7. Greater broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus vittatus, referred to here as Vampyrops vittatus.
    8. Wrinkle-faced bat, Centurio senex, referred to here as Centurio macmurtrii.

    Inscribed above: ‘Biol Centr Am Mammalia Tab. 3’
    Below: ‘1. VESPERUGO ABIGULARIS. 2. VESPERUGO PARVULUS. 3. GLOSSONYCTERIS LASIOPYGA.
    4. SACCOPTERYX PLICATA. 5. ISCHNOGLOSSA NIVALIS. 6. DIPHYLLA ECAUDATA.
    7. VAMPYROPS VITTATUS. 8. CENTURIO MACMURTRII.
    C. Berjeau lith. Mintern Bros
    imp’
    Table 3 from Biologia centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and central America, the Mammalia volume, authored by Edward Aliston and co-edited by Frederick Du Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin.

    Frederick Du Cane Godman (1834-1919) British entomologist and ornithologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1882.

    Osbert Salvin (1835-1898) British naturalist and ornithologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873.
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