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tube-nosed bat

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Noun1.tube-nosed bat - any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubestube-nosed bat - any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes
harpy bat, tube-nosed fruit bat, harpy
fruit bat, megabat - large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit
genus Nyctimene, Nyctimene - East Indian fruit bats
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Her current research concentrates on tube-nosed bats of Southeast Asia, using morphology and DNA sequencing.
Where in the world are they? The who, what, and where from our ... by ROM Magazine
We report the molecular and virulence characterization of 2 bat JEV isolates from Yunnan: B58, obtained from a Leschenault's rousette (Rousettus leschenaultia), a fruit bat, in 1989; and GB30, obtained from a little tube-nosed bat (Murina aurata), an insectivore, in 1997.
Japanese encephalitis viruses from bats in Yunnan, China by Wang, Jing-Lin; Pan, Xiao-Ling; Zhang, Hai-Lin; Fu, Shi-Hong; Wang, Huan-Yu; Tang, Qing; Wang, Lin-F / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The actual names for the bats shown are: the Slit-Faced bat, the Spear-Nosed bat, the Tube-Nosed bat, the Pocketed Free-Tailed bat, the Leaf-Nosed bat, and the Flying Fox.
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