Tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene sp.) in the Cylops Mountains, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern New Guinea montane rain forests] Reference

The lesser tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene draconilla) and greater sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura furax) are considered vulnerable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests] Reference

Two of these species are globally threatened: the vulnerable Seram flying-fox (Pteropus ocularis) and lesser tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene minutus).    From Wordnik.com.  [Buru rain forests] Reference

Of these endemic and near-endemic species, the Fijian blossom-bat (Notopteris macdonaldi) and Banks flying-fox (Pteropus fundatus) are considered vulnerable, and the Nendö tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene sanctacrucis) is presumed to be extinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanuatu rain forests] Reference

Nyctimene having entertained a criminal passion for her father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference

A tube-nosed fruit bat of the Nyctimene species, which is one of the exotic animals, some completely new to science, which have been discovered by experts from Conservation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Bulmer's fruit bat (Aproteles bulmerae) and the large pogonomelomys (Pogonomelomys bruijni) are critically endangered, whereas the lesser tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene draconilla), New Guinea sheathtail-bat (Emballonura furax), Fly River horseshoe-bat (Hipposideros muscinus), and Papuan mastiff bat (Otomops papuensis) are considered vulnerable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests] Reference

Oceanus, is borne back to the heavens by her peacocks, who have so lately changed their colour; a thing which has also happened to the raven, which has been lately changed from white to black, he having refused to listen to the warnings of the crow (who relates the story of its own transformation, and of that of Nyctimene into an owl), and having persisted in informing Phœbus of the intrigues of Coronis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference

Yet what does this avail me, if Nyctimene, made a bird for a horrid crime, has succeeded me in my honor?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference

Name: Nyctimene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five rejected applications to Obama's MTV town hall] Reference

Although the Solomon Islands contain only forty-seven mammal species, a remarkable twenty-six of those species are endemic or near endemic, including nine murid rodents (Melomys, Solomys, Uromys), fifteen pteropodid bats (Dobsonia, Melonycteris, Nyctimene, Pteralopex, Pteropus), a horseshoe bat (Anthops), and one molossid bat (Chaerephon) (Table 1).    From Wordnik.com.  [Solomon Islands rain forests] Reference