Guide to the galleries of mammalia (mammalian, osteological, cetacean) in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History).
- British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology.
- Date:
- 1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Guide to the galleries of mammalia (mammalian, osteological, cetacean) in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![To this great group, containing five families and the great ma- jority of the species, belong all our British species, the largest of which, the Noctule [Vesperngo noctula)^ may be taken as a typical insectivorous Bat. The most extreme modification of this type is represented by the Blood-sucking Bat [Desmodus rvfus), whose molars are almost aborted as being practically useless, while its incisors are reduced in number to two, which are extremely large and gouge-shaped, and peculiarly fitted to cause a free flow of blood from their bite (see fig. 40). Order V. DERMOPTERA. [Case 8. Ill PtiG so-called Flying Lemur [Galeopithecus), of which a l)iv. A.] siieleton is mounted, the radius and ulna are partly joined to- Fig. 41. Lower Incisors of Galeopithecus. gether, in order to render the forearm more rigid ; the hip-bones are united below by a long symphgsis pubis’, and in the skull the muzzle is broad and flattened, the orbit nearly surrounded by bone, and there is a well-developed zygomatic arch. The dentition of these peculiar animals is altogether unique, especially the lower incisor teeth (tig. 41), which are of a very remarkable pattern, being so deeply notched as to appear like minute combs.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28122574_0094.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
