Image: Megaderma gigas PZS 1880 pl46

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Description: Illustration published with first description of Macroderma gigas, named here as Megaderma gigas, a species of microbat found in Australia. There is a figure depicting a skull of the animal at bottom left. The image was adjusted to lighten backgound, and a crop to content removed the captioning.
Title: Megaderma gigas PZS 1880 pl46
Credit: Dobson, G.E. (1880). "On some new or rare species of Chiroptera in the collection of the Göttingen Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1880: 461–465. ISSN 0370-2774 [from jp2 zip at archive.org
Author: R. Mintern
Permission: This file comes from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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