Spectral bat or false vampire bat, Vampyrum spectrum. Vespertilio spectrum Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Hermann Jakob Tyroff from Johann Christian Daniel Schreber's Animal Illustrations after Nature, or Schreber's Fantastic Animals, Erlangen, Germany, 1775.

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