glossophaga

Updated: June 4, 2025

I shot a great many as they hung from the rafters, and the negroes having mounted with ladders to the roof outside, routed out from beneath the caves many hundreds of them, including young broods. There were altogether four species two belonging to the genus Dysopes, one to Phyllostoma, and the fourth to Glossophaga.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons