Hipposideros

See also: hipposideros

Translingual

Etymology

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Proper noun

Hipposideros m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Hipposideridae – roundleaf bats.

Usage notes

• Thought to be paraphyletic, but no consensus exists on alternative phylogenies.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria - infraclass; Boreoeutheria - magnorder; Laurasiatheria - superorder; Chiroptera - order; Microchiroptera - suborder; Rhinolophoidea - superfamily; Hipposideridae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Hipposideros armiger (great roundleaf bat), Hipposideros ater (dusky roundleaf bat), Hipposideros bicolor (bicolored leaf-nosed bat), Hipposideros caffer (Sundevall's leaf-nosed bat), Hipposideros calcaratus (spurred leaf-nosed bat), Hipposideros cervinus (fawn-colored leaf-nosed bat), Hipposideros cineraceus (ashy leaf-nosed bat), Hipposideros cyclops (cyclops leaf-nosed bat), Hipposideros diadema (diadem roundleaf bat), Hipposideros gigas (giant roundleaf bat), Hipposideros papua (Biak roundleaf bat), Hipposideros ruber (Noack's roundleaf bat), Hipposideros speoris (Schneider's roundleaf bat), Hipposideros turpis (lesser roundleaf bat), Hipposideros vittatus (striped roundleaf bat) - selected species

References

• Hipposideros on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hipposideros on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Hipposideros on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Hipposideros in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.
• Hipposideros at AnimalBase
• Hipposideros at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Hipposideros at Encyclopedia of Life
• Hipposideros at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Hipposideros at Paleobiology Database