Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A suborder of Insectivora, containing the single family Galeopithecidæ (which see). Also Dermatoptera, Pterophora.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) The division of insects which includes the earwigs (
Forticulidæ ). - noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of lemuroid mammals having a parachutelike web of skin between the fore and hind legs, of which the colugo (Galeopithecus) is the type. See
Colugo . - noun plural (Zoöl.) An order of Mammalia; the
Chiroptera .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
order within theinfraclass Placentalia — thecolugos .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun flying lemurs
Etymologies
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Examples
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Archonta was first named by William King Gregory in 1910* to house Scandentia (tree shrews), Chiroptera, Dermoptera and Primates (Gregory also included sengis/elephant shrews within Archonta, but they were later removed from it as their affinities clearly lie elsewhere).
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Archonta was first named by William King Gregory in 1910* to house Scandentia (tree shrews), Chiroptera, Dermoptera and Primates (Gregory also included sengis/elephant shrews within Archonta, but they were later removed from it as their affinities clearly lie elsewhere).
We flightless primates Darren Naish 2006
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Some, as eagles, have been called Schizoptera, others Dermoptera, as the bats, others Ptilota, as wasps, others Coleoptera, as beetles and all those insects which brought forth in cases and coverings, break their prison to fly away in liberty.
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Many people consider the Dermoptera to be a separate order, but McKenna and Bell (1997) in
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Bat diphyly is not currently favoured by the evidence, and even Archonta has now fallen by the wayside: DNA-based phylogenies now indicate that, while Scandentia, Dermoptera and Primates probably do form a clade – the newly dubbed Euarchonta – bats aren’t close relatives of euarchontans at all.
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Bat diphyly is not currently favoured by the evidence, and even Archonta has now fallen by the wayside: DNA-based phylogenies now indicate that, while Scandentia, Dermoptera and Primates probably do form a clade – the newly dubbed Euarchonta – bats aren’t close relatives of euarchontans at all.
We flightless primates Darren Naish 2006
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