. The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies . ors, alveolar border, ; mandibular tooth row exclusive of incisors,alveolar border, 7. 13(>. Tliyroptera. !; ; ^ M.^ = 38. i^:-< 1—1 3—3 3—3 ^ Thyroptera Spix, Simiar. et Vespert. Brasil., 1823, p. 61. TypeThyroptcra tricolor Licht. & Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 1854, p. small; tail long; wing membrane from ankle, very thin; calcarv^ery short; no nose-leaf; muzzle lengthened; crown elevated; base ofthumbs and soles of feet with hollow suctorial disks; tail ex
. The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies . ors, alveolar border, ; mandibular tooth row exclusive of incisors,alveolar border, 7. 13(>. Tliyroptera. !; ; ^ M.^ = 38. i^:-< 1—1 3—3 3—3 ^ Thyroptera Spix, Simiar. et Vespert. Brasil., 1823, p. 61. TypeThyroptcra tricolor Licht. & Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 1854, p. small; tail long; wing membrane from ankle, very thin; calcarv^ery short; no nose-leaf; muzzle lengthened; crown elevated; base ofthumbs and soles of feet with hollow suctorial disks; tail extendingslightly beyond interfemoral membrane; middle finger with threephalanges. 601. discifera (Hyonycteris), Licht. & Peters, Monatsb. K. Wiss. Berl., 1854, p. 336. Miller, Proc. Biol. , X, 1896, p. Bat. Type locality. Puerto Caballos, District of Cortez, Honduras,Central America. Gcogr. Distr. Honduras, south to South America. Genl. Char. Size very small; ear small, funnel-sha]icd, much hid- 638 Fig. 129. Thyroptera discifera. No. 10S419 U. S. Nat. Mus. times nat. size. Face enlarged 7 times. den in fur; tips pointed, lower two-thirds of outer margin convex,terminating midway between tragus and angle of mouth; upper por-tion of outer margin concave; tragus short, with a prominentlobule opposite the base of its inner margin directed forward, ab-ruptly narrowed in upper third, very acutely pointed and curvedinward; deep pit between nostrils; lower lip with groove on eachside inclosing an angular cushion; wing membrane to ankles; a cir-cular hollow disk on ball of thumb and another smaller one on soleof the foot; upper incisors directed forward and inward, bifid;lower incisors trifid; canines small; the first upper premolar smallerthan second, and first lower premolar also smaller than second butlarger than canine; middle lower molar largest.
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