PHYLLOSTOMIDAE SKULL GALLERY FAUNA PARAGUAY

Designed by Paul Smith 2006. This website is copyrighted by law.
Material contained herewith may not be used without the prior written permission of FAUNA Paraguay.
Photographs on this web-site were taken by Paul Smith and are used with the permission of Robert Owen and the Centro de Mastzoologia del Paraguay.

PHYLLOSTOMIDAE COMPARATIVE SKULL GALLERY
Many thanks to Robert Owen and the Centro de Mastozoologia del Paraguay for permission to photograph skull specimens held in the collection there.

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Woolly False Vampire Chrotopterus auritus
DORSAL (FPMAM109PH); VENTRAL (FPMAM110PH); LATERAL (FPMAM111PH)
Skulls courtesy of Centro de Mastozoologia del Paraguay, Asunción

DORSAL

VENTRAL

LATERAL

DORSAL

VENTRAL

LATERAL

Greater Spear-nosed Bat Phyllostomus hastatus
DORSAL (FPMAM118PH); VENTRAL (FPMAM119PH); LATERAL (FPMAM120PH)
Skulls courtesy of Centro de Mastozoologia del Paraguay, Asunción

DORSAL

VENTRAL

LATERAL

Pallas´s Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga soricina
DORSAL (FPMAM121PH); VENTRAL (FPMAM122PH); LATERAL (FPMAM123PH)
Skulls courtesy of Centro de Mastozoologia del Paraguay, Asunción

DORSAL

LATERAL

Seba´s Short-tailed Bat Carollia perspicillata
DORSAL (FPMAM134PH); LATERAL (FPMAM135PH)
Skulls courtesy of Centro de Mastozoologia del Paraguay, Asunción

DORSAL

VENTRAL

LATERAL

Fringed Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus fimbriatus
DORSAL (FPMAM139PH); VENTRAL (FPMAM140PH); LATERAL (FPMAM141PH)
Skulls courtesy of Centro de Mastozoologia del Paraguay, Asunción

DORSAL

VENTRAL

LATERAL

Great Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus lituratus
DORSAL (FPMAM153PH); VENTRAL (FPMAM154PH); LATERAL (FPMAM155PH)
Skulls courtesy of Centro de Mastozoologia del Paraguay, Asunción

DORSAL

VENTRAL

LATERAL

Flat-faced Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus planirostris
DORSAL (FPMAM160PH); VENTRAL (FPMAM161PH); LATERAL (FPMAM162PH)
Skulls courtesy of Centro de Mastozoologia del Paraguay, Asunción

DORSAL

VENTRAL

LATERAL

White-lined Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus lineatus
DORSAL (FPMAM166PH); VENTRAL (FPMAM167PH); LATERAL (FPMAM168PH)
Skulls courtesy of Centro de Mastozoologia del Paraguay, Asunción

DORSAL

VENTRAL

LATERAL

Ipanema Bat Pygoderma bilabiatum
DORSAL (FPMAM172PH); VENTRAL (FPMAM173PH); LATERAL (FPMAM174PH)
Skulls courtesy of Centro de Mastozoologia del Paraguay, Asunción

DORSAL

VENTRAL

LATERAL

Little Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira lilium
DORSAL (FPMAM186PH); VENTRAL (FPMAM187PH); LATERAL (FPMAM188PH)
Skulls courtesy of Centro de Mastozoologia del Paraguay, Asunción

DORSAL

VENTRAL

LATERAL

Common Vampire Bat Desmodus rotundus
DORSAL (FPMAM193PH); VENTRAL (FPMAM194PH); LATERAL (FPMAM195PH)
Skulls courtesy of Centro de Mastozoologia del Paraguay, Asunción

White-winged Vampire Bat Diaemus youngii
LATERAL (FPMAM328PH)
Skulls courtesy of www.pybio.org