Cuban flower bat [SEP] parent taxon
Cuban flower bat
The Cuban flower bat ("Phyllonycteris poeyi"), also called Poey's flower bat, is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Description.
The Cuban flower bat is a medium-sized bat, with a wingspan of , and a body weight of . The males are significantly larger than the females. Both sexes have silky, uniformly greyish-white fur. They have a relatively short tail, no more than
bat, Jamaican fruit bat, little brown bat, northern long-eared myotis and the silver-haired bat. Some bats not in this list, but with reported sightings in the Lower Keys, are the buffy flower bat, Cuban flower bat and Cuban fig-eating bat.
Bats can be classified in two groups by their roosting habits: solitary- and colony-roosting bats.
Solitary bats prefer to live in leaves, palm fronds and Spanish moss. Resident bats in this category are the eastern red bat,