false vampire bat


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Related to false vampire bat: Megaderma lyra, Spectral 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
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
###Megadermatidae###Indian false vampire bat (Megaderma lyra)###14###LC
The false vampire bat (Vampyrum spectrum, Phyllostomidae) was recorded for the first time in Oaxaca by Alfaro et al.
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.