Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of insectivorous mammals, typical of the subfamily Gymnurinæ.
  • noun Same as Erismatura.

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  • noun butterfly rays

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  • Mammals found only here or in few other Amazonian regions include three species of endemic titi monkeys (Callicebus hoffmannsi, C. dubius, C. cinerascens), endemic marmosets (Callithrix humeralifer), locally endemic white-faced sakis (Pithecia albicans), a number of rodents such as South American field mice (Bolomys lasiurus), and bats Saccopteryx gymnura.

    Monte Alegre varzea 2008

  • Raffles, who described it as a _Viverra_ (_V. gymnura_); however,

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

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