Lavia frons
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Matina C. Kalcounis-Rüppell, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Lavia frons (Fig. 1) is distinguished from all
other African bats except Cardioderma cor in having a large, erect
noseleaf, a divided tragus, and large ears that are basally united
across the top of the head. Lavia frons differs from Cardioderma
cor by having a long (ca. 20 mm) noseleaf that is bluntly truncated
at its tip and a tragus with the inner lobe sharply pointed and the
outer lobe pointed and >0.5 the length of the ear. Cardioderma
has a shorter noseleaf, <15 mm, and a tragus with the inner lobe
quadrate or rounded and the outer lobe pointed but <0.5 the length
of the ear (Hayman and Hill, 1971). Lavia also has distinctive
coloration, with yellowish ears and flight membranes and blue to
slaty gray fur.
Lavia frons
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Additional Information
- Publication
- MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 614, pp. 1-4, 3 figs.
- Language: English
- Date: 1999
- Keywords
- Lavia frons, Bats, Species description