leaf-nosed

Updated: May 7, 2025

But there are certain families of bats, named horseshoe bats, leaf-nosed bats and vampires about which common knowledge is nil, and the knowledge possessed by naturalists very little, so I will tell what I know of them.

Edward Hamilton Aitken - Concerning Animals and Other Matters

The little grey blood-sucking Phyllostoma, mentioned in a former chapter as found in my chamber at Caripi, was not uncommon at Ega, where everyone believes it to visit sleepers and bleed them in the night. But the vampire was here by far the most abundant of the family of leaf-nosed bats. It is the largest of all the South American species, measuring twenty-eight inches in expanse of wing.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

No wonder that imaginative people have conferred diabolical instincts on so ugly an animal. Ugly as is the broad leaf-nosed family of bats, it is in reality the least harmless. The little grey Phyllostoma is the guilty blood-sucker which visits sleepers and bleeds them in the night.

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Western World: Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North: and South America