Scientific Illustration

Epomophorus francqueti now called Epomops franqueti - Franquet’s Epauletted Fruit Bat by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London..
London :Academic Press, [etc.],1833-1965..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37028057

Notopteris macdonaldi - the Long-tailed Fruit Bat by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London..
London :Academic Press, [etc.],1833-1965..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37028041

biomedicalephemera:

Fruit bat of the subfamily Pteropodinae

The megabats of the Pteropodinae include the largest bats in the world: the Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox (Acerodon jubatus) and the Large Flying Fox (Pteropus vampyrus), also known as the Malaysian Flying Fox.

The teeth of the family Pteropus, and especially of the subfamily Pteropodinae, are specially designed to rip open and grind up fruits, both juicy and fleshy. The large canines allow them to slash into thick skins, and the dextrous tongue and molars that are good for chewing (but not continued grinding) make an ideal dentition for most South Pacific fruits. Some fruit bats consume vegetation, pollen, or nectar, but Pteropodinae consumes almost exclusively fruit.

Fruit bats lack a tail and the ability to echolocate, like all Old-World bats. They have very good eyesight, and are thought to have split off from microbats (the New-World bats, including all of the carnivorous bats) during the Eocene epoch, around 45 million years ago.

Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur. J.C.D. Schreber, 1774.

“The Bismark Masked Flying Fox (Pteropus capistratus) is a species of megabat in the Pteropodidae family found in Papua New Guinea and named after the Bismarck Archipelago. It was originally considered a subspecies of Pteropus temminckii before being reassessed in 2001. This species has two subspecies, namely:

Pteropus capistratus capistratus

Pteropus capistratus ennisae”

From: ‘Die Fledermäuse des Berliner Museums für Naturkunde. 1. Lief., Die Megachiroptera des Berliner Museums für Naturkunde’

n360_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

The Black-eared Flying Fox (Pteropus melanotus)