1) East indian fruit bats 2) Genus nyctimene 3) Mammal genus 
[genus] Nyctimene is a genus of bats in the Pteropodidae family. They are distributed in the central Philippines, eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the north eastern tip of Queensland, Australia. It contains these species: Genus Nyctimene ...[mythology] In Roman mythology, NyctimenePronunciation-needed was the daughter of Epopeus, a king of Lesbos. She had sexual intercourse with her father and was transformed by Minerva into an owl as she was hiding in the woods out of shame. In the Metamorphoses, Cornix (the crow) complains that her place as Minerva`s sacred bird is being usu...
[n] - East Indian fruit bats
genus Nyctimene noun East Indian fruit bats