Taphozous
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taphozous-309-8543491
title:
Taphozous
text:
Taphozous is a genus of the family Emballonuridae. The wide distribution of the genus includes several regions of Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Africa. Taphozous comes from the Greek τάφος, meaning "a tomb". The common names for species include variants on sac-winged, sheathtail, or tomb bats. The genus is the type for a grouping within the family, subfamily Taphozoinae, and an arrangement that describes two subgenera is as follows: subgenus Taphozous (Liponycteris) Hamilton's tomb
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Genus of bats
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taphozous
date created:
date modified:
2022-05-24T11:38:20Z
main entity:
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image:
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fields total:
13
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15