. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the ... Museum. 786 llELONTCTEKIS. By having the underside of the body much darker than the back this genus is at once distinguished from all other Alacroglossince (and indeed from all other Fruit-bats, except certain species of Pteropus). The following combinations of characters are absolutely diagnostic: Infraorbital canal long, incisors ^-2 (tbe infraorbital canal is long only in two other genera of Fruit-bats, Nesonycteris and Kotopleris, both of which have only one pair of lower incisors) ; or ; infraorbital canal long, index clawed (claw
. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the ... Museum. 786 llELONTCTEKIS. By having the underside of the body much darker than the back this genus is at once distinguished from all other Alacroglossince (and indeed from all other Fruit-bats, except certain species of Pteropus). The following combinations of characters are absolutely diagnostic: Infraorbital canal long, incisors ^-2 (tbe infraorbital canal is long only in two other genera of Fruit-bats, Nesonycteris and Kotopleris, both of which have only one pair of lower incisors) ; or ; infraorbital canal long, index clawed (claw absent in JS'eso- nycteris and Notoptens); or: tongue Macroglossine, forearm more than 50 mm., index clawed (in the other Macroglossince with the forearm more than 50 mm., viz. Eonycteris, Nesonycteris, and Notopteris, the claw of the index is absent).. Fig. 75.—Me/.oni/cterismelanops, $. New Britain. No. I (linear), front view f, outline of dorsal aspect of skull j. Skull (fig. 75).—Very similar in general shape to that of Syconycteris (lig. 73, p. 772), but infraorbital canal much longer (infraorbital foramen almost in the middle between ventral margin of orbital cavity and alveolus of canine, in Syconycteris distance from foramen to base of canine at least three times greater than from foramen to ventral margin of orbit) ; premaxill* nearly twice. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology . [Mammals]; Dobson, George Edward; Andersen, Knud. London
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