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    1. Plecotus auritus (Geoffroy) = Plecotus auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)
    2. Plecotus auritus (Geoffroy) = Plecotus auritus (Linnaeus, 1758), head from front
    3. Nyctophilus australis (Peters) = Nyctophilus geoffroyi geoffroyi Leach, 1821, head from front
    4. Megaderma trifolium (Geoffroy) = Megaderma spasma trifolium Geoffroy, 1810, head from front
    5. Vampyrus auritus (Peters) = Chrotopterus auritus (Peters, 1856), head from the side
    6. Lonchorhina aurita (Tomes) = Lonchorhina aurita Tomes, 1863, head from front
    7. Lonchorhina aurita (Tomes) = Lonchorhina aurita Tomes, 1863, head from backside
    8. Natalus stramineus (Gray) = Natalus stramineus Gray, 1838, head from front
    9. Mormoops blainvillei (Peters) = Mormoops blainvillii Leach, 1821, head from front
    10. Anthops ornatus (Thomas) = Anthops ornatus Thomas, 1888, face from front
    11. Phyllostomus hastatum (Pallas) = Phyllostomus hastatus (Pallas, 1767), head from front
    12. Furipterus coerulescens (Tomes) = Furipterus horrens (F.Cuvier, 1828), head from front
    13. Rhinolophus equinus (Schreber) = Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber, 1774), head from front
    14. Centurio flavigularis (Peters) = Centurio senex Gray, 1842, head from front
    15. Vampyrus spectrum (Geoffroy) = Vampyrum spectrum (Linnaeus, 1758), head from front

    English:
    1-2: Brown Long-eared Bat
    3: Lesser Long-eared Bat
    4: Lesser False Vampire Bat
    5: Big-eared Woolly Bat
    6-7: Tomes's Sword-nosed Bat
    8: Mexican Funnel-eared Bat
    9: Antillean Ghost-faced Bat
    10: Flower-faced Bat
    11: Greater Spear-nosed Bat
    12: Thumbless Bat
    13: Greater Horseshoe Bat
    14: Wrinkle-faced Bat
    15: Spectral Bat

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    Source Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 67: Chiroptera (see here, here and here)
    Author
    Ernst Haeckel  (1834–1919)  wikidata:Q48246 s:en:Author:Ernst Haeckel q:it:Ernst Haeckel
     
    Ernst Haeckel
    Alternative names
    Haeckel; Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel; Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
    Description German naturalist, philosopher and artist
    Date of birth/death 16 February 1834 Edit this at Wikidata 9 August 1919 Edit this at Wikidata
    Location of birth/death Potsdam Jena
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