Greater spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomus hastatus. Javelin bat, Vespertilio haftatus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration by Jacques de Seve from Johann Christian Daniel Schreber's Animal Illustrations after Nature, or Schreber's Fantastic Animals, Erlangen, Germany, 1775.

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