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Desmodus

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genus desmodusnoun	type genus of the desmodontidae: vampire bats

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genus desmodusnoun	type genus of the desmodontidae: vampire bats
spectral batnoun	Vampyrum spectrum, the largest carnivorous bat.
desmodus draculae	an extinct species of vampire bat that inhabited Central and South America during the Pleistocene, and possibly the early Holocene.
vampire batnoun	Any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to Central and South America, which use their teeth to cut the skin of larger animals while they are asleep and surreptitiously drink blood, their sole source of food.
megadermatidae	Megadermatidae, or false vampire bats, are a family of bats found from central Africa, eastwards through southern Asia, and into Australia.
leaf-nosed batnoun	A bat of the family Phyllostomidae, having a pointed projection on the snout.
phyllostomenoun	(zoology, dated) phyllostomid
lesser horseshoe bat	The lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros) is a type of small European and North African insectivorous bat, related to its larger cousin, the greater horseshoe bat.
greater short-nosed fruit bat	The greater short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus sphinx), or short-nosed Indian fruit bat, is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae found in South and Southeast Asia.
hoary batnoun	Lasiurus cinereus, a vespertilionid bat that occurs throughout most of North America and much of South America, with disjunct populations in the Galápagos Islands and Hawaii.
new zealand long-tailed bat	Chalinolobus tuberculatus, known more commonly as the New Zealand long-tailed bat, the long-tailed wattle bat or pekapeka tou-roa, is a small insectivorous mammal within the genus Chalinolobus.
big brown batnoun	The bat Eptesicus fuscus.
large flying fox	The large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus, formerly Pteropus giganteus), also known as the greater flying fox, Malayan flying fox, Malaysian flying fox, large fruit bat, kalang, or kalong, is a southeast Asian species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae.
nycteribiidae	a family of the true fly superfamily Hippoboscoidea.
hodgson's bat	—
mexican free-tailed bat	The Mexican free-tailed bat or Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) is a medium-sized bat native to North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean, so named because its tail can be almost half its total length and is not attached to its uropatagium.
honduran white bat	The Honduran white bat (Ectophylla alba), also called the Caribbean white tent-making bat, is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomatidae.
jamaican fruit bat	The Jamaican, common, or Mexican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) is a frugivorous bat species native to the Neotropics.
egyptian fruit bat	The Egyptian fruit bat or Egyptian rousette (Rousettus aegyptiacus) is a species of megabat that occurs in Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and the Indian subcontinent.
long-eared batnoun	Any of many vesper bats with ears longer than bats of similar size, especially the brown long-eared bat or common long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus), of Eurasia.