Peters' dwarf epauletted fruit bat (Micropteropus pusillus) Peter's Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat (Micropteropus pusillus) Observed by natalie http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/natalie June 25, 2015
Author: (c) Natalie Weber, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Source: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1758133
Peters' 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.The color of the bat is brown or white
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Genus: Micropteropus
Species: Micropteropus pusillus (Peters, 1867)