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  Colugo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are just two species each in their own genera, which makes up the entire family Cynocephalidae and order Dermoptera.
Some mammalogists include Cynocephalidae as especially associated with the Primates as the Primatomorpha.
Alternatively, some mammalogists suggest that Dermoptera are related to Chiroptera, which is because of possibly convergent adaptations towards gliding.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colugo   (774 words)

  
 Re: I am wondering about the gliding mechanisms of colugos, order Dermoptera.
Dermoptera includes only two known families, Plagiomenidae which inhabited North America 60 to 70 million years ago, and Cynocephalidae, or colugos of Southeast Asia.
Classification of the Cynocephalidae family has been a problem because it has no fossil record.
For many years the Cynocephalidae was named Galeoopithecidae meaning "cloaked monkeys".
www.madsci.org /posts/archives/oct99/940010719.Zo.r.html   (323 words)

  
 03/18/96 DRIVEN BATS
These rules have drawn some high-pitched shrieks from the reinventing-government types in the White House.
``(b) No more than one sloth, bat, or flying lemur (Cynocephalidae) shall be transported in a primary enclosure.
However, a mother and her nursing young being transported for medical reasons, an established male-female pair, a family group, a pair of juvenile animals that have not reached puberty, or other small groups of animals that have been habitually housed together may be shipped in the same primary enclosure.
www.businessweek.com /@@f2xsBGYQiWDehgUA/1996/12/b346736.htm   (201 words)

  
 Cynocephalidae - Dictionnaire Français-Anglais WordReference.com
We found no English translation for 'Cynocephalidae' in our French to English Dictionary.
Or did you want to translate 'Cynocephalidae' from English to French?
Forum discussions with the word(s) 'Cynocephalidae' in the title:
www.wordreference.com /fren/Cynocephalidae   (49 words)

  
 colugo Colugo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Because the world obviously needed another short opinionated any link
Gliding and Parachuting Cynocephalus, the colugo, or flying lemur As is customarily said when mentioning the colugo it is neither a flyer nor a lemur but a member of the clade Dermoptera which may be closely related
>> The names Colugidae, Galeopithecidae and Galeopteridae are synonyms for Cynocephalidae.
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