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Conjoined Twins in a Wild Bat: A Case Report

2015

Urban, Daniel J. | Sorensen, Daniel W. | Maier, Jennifer A. | Fenton, M Brock | Simmons, Nancy B. | Cooper, Lisa Noelle | Sears, Karen E.

There are numerous records of conjoined twinning in humans and domesticated animals, but many fewer for wild animals because of the early death of conjoined twins. We here describe the incidental discovery and skeletal anatomy of a wild-caught bat fetus with two heads. To our knowledge, this is only the second conjoined bat fetus described, and the first conjoined Artibeus phaeotis. We also revisit the anatomy of the first conjoined bat that was described, a stillborn Eptesicus fuscus.

AGROVOC Keywords

case studies chiroptera death domestic animals fetus head humans twins wild animals

Bibliographic information

Published in

Acta chiropterologica

Volume 17 Issue 1 Pagination 189 - 192 ISSN 1733-5329

Publisher

Museum and Institute of Zoology at the Polish Academy of Science

Other Subjects

Artibeus; Artibeus phaeotis; Dicephalus parapagus; Eptesicus fuscus

Language

English

Type

Text; Journal Article

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DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.3161%2F15081109ACC2015.17.1.016

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