CLASSIFICATION OF ANIMALS 



Order : CHIROPTERA 



(The Bat Tribe) 

 Sub-order : MEGACHIROPTERA 



(The Frugivorous or Fruit-eating Bats) 

 Family : Pteropodid^ 



This family contains all the Frugivorous or Fruit-eating 

 Bats. They are usually of large size ; the molar teeth are 

 not tubercular, the crowns being smooth, but marked with 

 a deep longitudinal furrow ; the palate is continued behind 

 the last molars ; the second finger usually terminates in a 

 claw (always, in the South African species of Fruit Bats). 

 The two edges of the ear are in contact at the base, so as to 

 form a complete ring. Tail, when present, has no connection 

 with the wing membrane. The members of this family are 

 restricted to the warmer parts of the Old World. 



Species 

 (Inhabiting South Africa) 



1. Epomophorus wahlbergi, Sund. Oefvers. Akad. ForhandL, 



Stockholm, 1846, p. 118 (1847). 



2. Epomophorus crypturus, Pet. 



3. Epomophorus angolensis, Gray. Catal., 1870, p. 125. 



4. Eidolon helvum, Kerr. Animal Kingdom, i. pi. i., p. xvii. 



91, No. 108. 



5. Rousettus leachi, A. Smith. Zool. Journ., iv. p. 443. 



Sub-order : MICROCHIROPTERA 



(The Insectivorous or Insect-eating Bat Tribe) 

 Family : Rhinolophid^ 



{The Horse-shoe and Leaf -nosed Bats) 



Small Insectivorous Bats with leafy outgrowths around 

 the nostrils ; ears large, without a tragus ; under finger minus 

 a phalanx. These Bats range over Africa, Asia, and Australia. 

 They are not represented in Europe. 



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