Anoura

According to Linares, four endemic mammals are present in the Venezuelan Andean montane forests ecoregion: a marsupial (Gracilinanus dryas), a bat (Anoura luismanueli), a rat (Thomasomys vestitus), and a poorly known fish eating rat, (Neusticomys mussoi).

Venezuelan Andes montane forests 2008

Anoura fistulata is only the size of a mouse, but its tongue is around 8.5 centimetres long – more than double the tongue-length of similar nectar bats.

Archive 2006-12-01 2006

I immediately thought of pangolins on reading the news about the Tube-lipped nectar bat Anoura fistulata: the pangolin tongue 'roots' on the xiphisternum, a rod-like cartilaginous extension of the breastbone located on the ventral surface of the abdomen.

Andean Bats 2006

That while even "horse ancestry" fails to supply such a desideratum, in very strongly marked and exceptional kinds (such as the Ichthyosauria, Chelonia, and Anoura), the absence of links is very important and significant.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

Africa, considering its size and climate, is poor in species of Anoura.

The Common Frog 1874

This order is very unlike the first and already described order (Anoura), in that it is composed of creatures which in many respects are strangely divergent; and though most of the species more or less resemble our own Efts (or Newts) in shape, yet the Urodela are very far from constituting such a homogeneous group as do the Anoura.

The Common Frog 1874

What other animals of the class Batrachia constitute an order which approaches nearest to the Frog's order Anoura?

The Common Frog 1874

This animal retains during the whole of life not only the gill-aperture on each side, but also the external plumose gills which are transitory in the Anoura and in all the Urodela hitherto mentioned.

The Common Frog 1874

Having now passed in review the greatest differences presented by the nearest allies of our common Frog (the members namely of its own order), certain facts of interest present themselves respecting the geographical distribution of the group Anoura.

The Common Frog 1874

This very singular structure is found to exist also in the marine turtles, amongst the Chelonians, and here we have another striking resemblance between the Chelonia and the Anoura, apparently reinforcing the argument for the existence of real affinity derived from the presence of such bony dorsal shields in both those two orders.

The Common Frog 1874