Peter's Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat
Epomophorus pusillus
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 65
- Most observed in
- 🇬🇦 Gabon
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
Peters's dwarf epauletted fruit bat (Micropteropus pusillus) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and moist savanna.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Peters's dwarf epauletted fruit bat”.