Definition of Genus pipistrellus

1. Noun. Nearly cosmopolitan genus of very small bats.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Pipistrellus

genus Pilularia
genus Pimenta
genus Pimpinella
genus Pinckneya
genus Pinctada
genus Pineus
genus Pinguicula
genus Pinguinus
genus Pinicola
genus Pinnotheres
genus Pinus
genus Pipa
genus Piper
genus Pipile
genus Pipilo
genus Pipistrellus
genus Pipra
genus Piptadenia
genus Pipturus
genus Piqueria
genus Piranga
genus Piroplasma
genus Pisanosaurus
genus Piscidia
genus Pisonia
genus Pistacia
genus Pistia
genus Pisum
genus Pithecanthropus
genus Pithecellobium

Literary usage of Genus pipistrellus

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

1. List of North American Land Mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911 by Gerrit Smith Miller, United States National Museum (1912)
"RANGE.—North America north of Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific; probably not breeding south of the transition zone. Genus PIPISTRELLUS Kaup.2 1829. ..."

2. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"GENUS: PIPISTRELLUS It is not clearly established that the differences between the bats of the preceding genus and those of Pipistrellus are generic in ..."

3. The Families and Genera of Bats by Gerrit Smith Miller (1907)
"... the peculiar short, broad ears it shows greater specialization than some of the genera with more highly modified teeth. Genus PIPISTRELLUS Kaup. 1829. ..."

4. The Mammals of Colorado: An Account of the Several Species Found Within the by Edward Royal Warren (1910)
"... eight miles above New Castle, and Green Mountain Falls (Warren); Salida (Frey); Boulder (in Museum of University of Colorado). Genus PIPISTRELLUS ..."

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