Definition of Family Vespertilionidae

1. Noun. The majority of common bats of temperate regions of the world.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Vespertilionidae

family Uintatheriidae
family Ulmaceae
family Ulvaceae
family Umbelliferae
family Unionidae
family Upupidae
family Uranoscopidae
family Ursidae
family Urticaceae
family Usneaceae
family Ustilaginaceae
family Valerianaceae
family Varanidae
family Veneridae
family Verbenaceae
family Vespertilionidae (current term)
family Vespidae
family Violaceae
family Viperidae
family Vireonidae
family Viscaceae
family Vitaceae
family Vittariaceae
family Viverridae
family Viverrinae
family Volvariaceae
family Volvocaceae
family Vombatidae
family Welwitschiaceae
family Winteraceae

Literary usage of Family Vespertilionidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1836)
"... genus Vesper- tilio; family Vespertilionidae. A Treatise on Tetanus, being the Essay for which the Jack- ..."

2. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"The small bats constituting the family Vespertilionidae, have no nose-membrane, but an internal ..."

3. Zoology: A Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits, Instincts by William Benjamin Carpenter (1848)
"No fewer than fifteen species are known to inhabit this country ; of these, all but two belong to the family Vespertilionidae. 169. ..."

4. Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits by William Benjamin Carpenter (1857)
"No fewer than fifteen species are known to inhabit this country; of these, all but two belong to the family Vespertilionidae. 169. ..."

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