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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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dented on the siile. M. Geoftroy distinguishes from the Phyllostomesthose species which have a narrow extensile tongue,furnished with papilla; resembling hairs, lie de-signates them Glossoi-hAGUES {Glossophaga). Allthe species are likewise from America. [These alsohave been subdivided, according to the presence orabsence of a short tail, and other frivolous charactersinto Phijltnpbora and Jnoura, Gray, Monophyllus,Loach, and Glcssopliaga, as restricted. Spi.\ applies toone of them {Gl. amptexicaudata, Phyttophora of fig. i;.—vaniyms.peciium. Gray) the term Sanguisiuja criiilelissima, — a very cniel blood-sucker. According to Mr. Bell, the tongue of Phyllostoma, has a number of wart-lkeelevations, so arranged as to form a complete circular suctorial disc, when they are brought into con-tact at their sides, which is done by means of a set of muscular fibres, having a tendon attached toeach of the warts. The teeth of these animals, however, are decideiUy ill-adapted for blood-kiting.
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Thk True Vampyres {Desmodtis, Pr. Max., Edostoma, Orb., Sleiioderma ?, Geof.)This extraordinary genus has two immense, projecting, approximate upper incisors, ami similarlancet-shaped superior canines, all of which are excessively sharp-pointed, and arranged to iiillict atriple puncture, like that of a Leech ; four bilobate inferiorincisors, the innermost separated by a wide interval; thelower canines small and not compressed : there are no truemolars, but two false ones on the upper jaw, and three onthe lower, of a peculiar form, apparently unfitted for mas-tication (fig. 13). The intestine is shorter than in anyother known animal; as hlood, which probably constitutestheir sole food, is so readily assimilated.* They have thegeneral characters of the Phyllostomes externally, a smallbifid membrane on the nose, no tail or calcaneum, and theinterfemoral membrane but little developed. Are also in-habitants of South America.
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