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Platyrrhinus Incarum
''Platyrrhinus'' is a genus of leaf-nosed bats in the tribe Stenodermatini of family Phyllostomidae. Twenty one species are known: *Alberico's broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus albericoi'' *Slender broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus angustirostris'' *Darien broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus aquilus'' *Eldorado broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus aurarius'' *Short-headed broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus brachycephalus'' *Choco broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus chocoensis'' *Thomas's broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus dorsalis'' *Brown-bellied broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus fusciventris'' *Guianan broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus guianensis'' *Heller's broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus helleri'' *Incan broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus incarum'' *Buffy broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus infuscus'' *''Platyrrhinus ismaeli'' *White-lined broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus lineatus'' *Quechua broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus masu'' *Matapalo broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus matapalensis'' *Geoffroy's rayed bat, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Louis Frédéric De Saussure
Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (; ; 27 November 1829 – 20 February 1905) was a Swiss mineralogist and entomologist specialising in studies of Hymenoptera and Orthopteroid insects. He also was a prolific taxonomist. Biography Saussure's elementary education was at Alphonse Briquet's then, as an adolescent, at the Hofwyl school run by Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg. At the University of Geneva he was taught by François Jules Pictet de la Rive, who introduced him to entomology. After several years of study in Paris he received the degree of licentiate of the Faculty of Paris and obtained the degree of Doctor from the University of Giessen. He worked mainly on Hymenoptera and Orthoptera. His first paper, in 1852, was on solitary wasps. In 1854 he traveled to the West Indies, then to Mexico and the United States of America. There he met Louis Agassiz. He returned to Switzerland in 1856 with collections of American insects, myriapods, crustaceans, birds and ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |