Pygmy fruit-eating bat
| Pygmy fruit-eating bat | |
|---|---|
| feeding on Piper arboreum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Phyllostomidae |
| Genus: | Dermanura |
| Species: | D. phaeotis |
| Binomial name | |
| Dermanura phaeotis Miller, 1902 | |
| Pygmy fruit-eating bat range | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Artibeus phaeotis | |
The pygmy fruit-eating bat (Dermanura phaeotis) is a bat of the family Phyllostomidae. The specific name phaeotis is of Greek derivation, coming from the word phaios meaning dusky, referring to their dusky gray coloration.