Etymology

Kitti's hog-nosed bat

Today it means: Craseonycteris thonglongyai, a small bat with a distinctive pig-like snout, found in western Thailand and southeast Burma. Full definition →

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Named after Kitti Thonglongya, the Thai zoologist who discovered it.

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