| Pygmy fruit-eating bat | |
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| feeding on Piper arboreum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Phyllostomidae |
| Genus: | Dermanura |
| Species: | D. phaeotis
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| Binomial name | |
| Dermanura phaeotis Miller, 1902
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| Pygmy fruit-eating bat range | |
| Synonyms | |
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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.
- ^ Miller, B.; Reid, F.; Arroyo-Cabrales, J.; Cuarón, A.D.; de Grammont, P.C. (2015). "Dermanura phaeotis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T83683287A21997769. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T83683287A21997769.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.