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Morphological Characteristics of Rhinopoma microphyllum. (A) Rhinopoma microphyllum species, (b) There is a tail, not a whole tail is immersed in the intercellular skin membrane, and a free tail sticking at the ends of the intercellular skin membrane, (c) Large inner series of teeth, half canines. Upper incisors outer recessed between the incisors and canines I 2 side in contact with the canines, (d) There is a simple folds over the nose, narrow the nostrils, the area between the nostrils bare, (e) developed good tragus
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Rhinopoma microphyllum is a bat species that lives in a habitat covered by grove of trees and shrubs in the primary forest vegetation. These species is included in the IUCN Red List list with Least Concern (LC) status or at the least information. This study was to describe of R. microphyllum as a new record in the southern of Lombok, and to examine...
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