craseonycterid

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craseonycterid (plural craseonycterids)

  1. (zoology) Any bat of the family Craseonycteridae.
    • 2009, David MacDonald, The Encyclopedia of Mammals:
      However genetic data now indicate that the rhinolophoid microbats (rhinolophids, megadermatids, craseonycterids, hipposiderids, and rhinopomatids) are in fact more closely related to megabats than to other microbats.