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Haeckel Chipoptera big spots.jpg
  1. Plecotus auritus (Geoffroy) = Plecotus auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  2. Plecotus auritus (Geoffroy) = Plecotus auritus (Linnaeus, 1758), head from front
  3. Nyctophilus australis (Peters) = Nyctophilus geoffroyi geoffroyi Leach, 1821, head from front
  4. Megaderma trifolium (Geoffroy) = Megaderma spasma trifolium Geoffroy, 1810, head from front
  5. Vampyrus auritus (Peters) = Chrotopterus auritus (Peters, 1856), head from the side
  6. Lonchorhina aurita (Tomes) = Lonchorhina aurita Tomes, 1863, head from front
  7. Lonchorhina aurita (Tomes) = Lonchorhina aurita Tomes, 1863, head from backside
  8. Natalus stramineus (Gray) = Natalus stramineus Gray, 1838, head from front
  9. Mormoops blainvillei (Peters) = Mormoops blainvillii Leach, 1821, head from front
  10. Anthops ornatus (Thomas) = Anthops ornatus Thomas, 1888, face from front
  11. Phyllostomus hastatum (Pallas) = Phyllostomus hastatus (Pallas, 1767), head from front
  12. Furipterus coerulescens (Tomes) = Furipterus horrens (F.Cuvier, 1828), head from front
  13. Rhinolophus equinus (Schreber) = Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber, 1774), head from front
  14. Centurio flavigularis (Peters) = Centurio senex Gray, 1842, head from front
  15. Vampyrus spectrum (Geoffroy) = Vampyrum spectrum (Linnaeus, 1758), head from front

English:
1-2: Brown Long-eared Bat
3: Lesser Long-eared Bat
4: Lesser False Vampire Bat
5: Big-eared Woolly Bat
6-7: Tomes's Sword-nosed Bat
8: Mexican Funnel-eared Bat
9: Antillean Ghost-faced Bat
10: Flower-faced Bat
11: Greater Spear-nosed Bat
12: Thumbless Bat
13: Greater Horseshoe Bat
14: Wrinkle-faced Bat
15: Spectral Bat

Full text description (in German):

Date 1904
Source Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 67: Chiroptera (see here, here and here)
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