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
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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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