false vampire bat

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Noun1.false vampire bat - any New or Old World carnivorous bat erroneously thought to suck blood but in fact feeding on insectsfalse vampire bat - any New or Old World carnivorous bat erroneously thought to suck blood but in fact feeding on insects
false vampire
leafnose bat, leaf-nosed bat - bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose; especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae
big-eared bat, Megaderma lyra - large carnivorous Old World bat with very large ears
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REPRODUCTION OF THE WOOLLY FALSE VAMPIRE BAT CHROTOPTERUS AURITUS (CHIROPTERA: PHYLLOSTOMIDAE) IN A HUMID TROPICAL FOREST OF THE PACIFIC COAST OF GUATEMALA
REPRODUCCION DEL FALSO VAMPIRO LANUDO CHROTOPTERUS AURITUS (CHIROPTERA: PHYLLOSTOMIDAE) EN UN BOSQUE TROPICAL HUMEDO DE LA COSTA PACIFICA DE GUATEMALA
###Megadermatidae###Indian false vampire bat (Megaderma lyra)###14###LC
Short Communication - Mammalian Diversity of Tolipir National Park, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan
The greater false vampire bat Megaderma lyra is an Indomalayan bat species.
DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST RECORD OF THE INDIAN FALSE VAMPIRE BAT (Megaderma lyra) E. Geoffroy 1810 (RHINOPOMATIDAE: CHIROPTERA) CAPTURED FROM NORTHWESTERN PAKISTAN
The false vampire bat (Vampyrum spectrum, Phyllostomidae) was recorded for the first time in Oaxaca by Alfaro et al.
Records of bats from Oaxaca, Mexico
Examples include one megachiropteran (Indian false vampire bat, Megaderma lyra (Subbaraj and Balasingh 1996)), andthree microchiropterans (Jamaican fruit-eating bat, Artibeus jamaicensis, (Morrison 1978)); pond bat, Myotis dasycneme (Voute et al.
Lunar phobia in the greater fishing bat Noctilio leporinus (Chiroptera: Noctilionidae)
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