patagium

The patagium, the skin between the legs, is very small, and they lack a tail - a general characteristic of the fruit bats.

The patagium of a bat has four distinct parts:

Flying Squirrels do not actually fly, they glide using a patagium created by a fold of skin.

Its most striking feature is the patagium, or membrane, that extends from the fifth finger to the first toe.

This kite-shaped skin is known as a patagium, which is expanded for gliding.

They have a furry membrane called a patagium which extends between the front and rear legs, used to glide through the air.

They had large wings formed by a patagium stretching from the torso to a dramatically lengthened fourth finger.

Slodd was a slothful, off-white parasite with large patagium beneath his arms.

These mammals acquired the patagium independently.

This opens out the flap of furry skin (the patagium) that stretches from its wrist to its ankle.

The species gets its common name from its mahogany-brown belly and the similar colour of its patagium, or gliding membrane.

A bird's wing has lots of feathers, while a bat's wing is mostly a stretchy, thin skin called a patagium.

Formation of the bat wing membrane (the patagium) allowed a greater surface area of the wing necessary for flight.

A patagial tag is a permanent tag held onto the wing by a rivet punched through the patagium.

Its crown is pale grey, its patagium is orangish and its underparts are white.

The forelimbs are folded so that the wrists are tucked under the chin, giving the patagium a triangular outline when outstretched.

A rare subrace of t'skrang, the k'stulaami, possess a flap of skin much like a flying squirrel's patagium, allowing them to glide.

The gliding membrane (patagium) was insulated by a thick covering of fur, and was supported by the limbs as well as the tail.

A distinctive feature of flying squirrels is the furry glide membrane or patagium, a flap of skin that stretches between the front and rear legs.

The surface of this species' patagium, or the extensible fold of skin used in flight, is red in males and dusky in females.

Found in Southeast Asia, the colugo is probably the mammal most adapted for gliding, with a patagium that is as large as geometrically possible.

The impressions of fur on the gliding membrane, or patagium, and other parts of its body preserve some of the most ancient examples of mammalian skin covering.

Finally, applying ectopic BMPs and FGF antagonists to developing bat wings results in apoptosis of the patagium.

The Patagium is a fleshy membrane that is found in gliding mammals such as: flying lemurs, flying squirrels, sugar gliders and the extinct Volaticotherium.

Bats do not flap their entire forelimbs, as birds do, but instead flap their spread-out digits, which are very long and covered with a thin membrane or patagium.