Banana bat
Also known as Musonycteris harrisoni
species of mammal
Species
VulnerableBanana Bat
species
Observations2
The word “Musonycteris” comes from the Arabic word for banana (musa) and the Greek word for bat (nycteris). The species is named for Ed N. Harrison, who supported the Mexican fieldwork of W.J. Schladach, one of the first to describe the bat (Tellez and Ortega 1999).
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