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Almeida and others in 2016 recover pusillus deeply nested within typical Epomophorus , and it is therefore again included in Epomophorus , same treatment is given to E. intermedius . Monotypic.; [batnames2022] Previously considered a species of Micropteropus , but moved to Epomophorus by Almeida et al. (2020). See Owen-Ashley and Wilson (1998). For discussion of publication date, see Kock et al. (2002).; [MDD2022] moved from Micropteropus to Epomophorus; [batnames2023] Previously considered a species of Micropteropus , but moved to Epomophorus by Almeida et al. (2020). See Owen-Ashley and Wilson (1998). For discussion of publication date, see Kock et al. (2002).; [MDD2023] moved from Micropteropus to Epomophorus; [MDD2025_2.0] moved from Micropteropus to Epomophorus; [batnames2025_1.7] Previously considered a species of Micropteropus, but moved to Epomophorus by Almeida et al. (2020). See Owen-Ashley and Wilson (1998). For discussion of publication date, see Kock et al. (2002).; [MDD2025_2.2] moved from Micropteropus to Epomophorus														pusillus				pusillus	pusillus			pusillus W. C. H. Peters, 1868		Corbet, G.B. and Hill, J.E. 1980. A World List of Mammalian Species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp.	Dwarf epauletted fruit bat	Senegal – Ethiopia, Angola – Zambia	Honacki, J.H., Kinman, K.E. and Koeppl, J.W. 1982. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Allen Press, Lawrence, 694 pp.	Micropteropus pusillus	Gambia.	Peters	1867	Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 870.	Distribution: Same as for genus.		Corbet, G.B. and Hill, J.E. 1991. A World List of Mammalian Species. Third edition. Oxford University Press, London, 243 pp. ISBN 0-19-854017-5	Dwarf epauletted fruit bat	Senegal – Ethiopia, Angola – Zambia	Koopman, K.F. 1993. Order Chiroptera. Pp. 137–242 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1206 pp.	Peters	1867	Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867:870.		Gambia to Ethiopia, south to Angola, Zambia, Burundi, and Tanzania.	Nigeria, Yoruba (see Bergmans, 1989).		PETERS	1867	Five palatal ridges, second to fifth widely separated anteriorly by a deep V-shaped groove, not arranged in separate pairs. Size small (forearm length, 46-55 mm; to tal length of skull, 28 31 mm).	Distribution: Same as for genus.	No subspecies.		32	species	M. pusillus	PETERS	1867	Micropteropus	genus	Micropteropus pusillus				Five palatal ridges, second to fifth widely separated anteriorly by a deep V-shaped groove, not arranged in separate pairs. Size small (forearm length, 46-55 mm; to tal length of skull, 28 31 mm).	No subspecies.		3. M. pusillus (PETERS 1867).	3	NA			Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. (Available from Johns Hopkins University Press, 1-800-537-5487 or (410) 516-6900, or at http://www.press.jhu.edu).	CHIROPTERA	Pteropodidae			Micropteropus pusillus	Micropteropus		pusillus	Peters	y	1867	1868	Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin	1867		870		Peters's Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat	Nigeria, Yoruba (see Bergmans [1989] and Kock et al. [2002]).	Senegal and Gambia east to Ethiopia and Sudan; south to Angola, Zambia, Burundi, and Tanzania.	IUCN/SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).		See Owen-Ashley and Wilson (1998). For discussion of publication date, see Kock et al. (2002).	03AD87FAFFEEF6018CB033D2F735FE1C	Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions	978-84-16728-19-0	hbmw_9_Pteropodidae_16.pdf.imf	hash://md5/ff94ff82ffc4f62a891e341cffa5ff9b	100	zip:hash://sha256/ec5fd314a06aba1a7b0b72f23e54ac625ae272bd98f82f1d01f4c09627d9e8e0!/treatments-xml-main/data/03/AD/87/03AD87FAFFEEF6018CB033D2F735FE1C.xml	Epomophorus pusillus	Pteropodidae	Epomophorus	pusillus	Peters	1868	Petit Epomophore @fr | Zwerg-Epaulettenflughund @de | Epomdforo pequeno @es | Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat @en | Peter's Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat @en | Peters’s Lesser Epauletted @en	Epomophorus pusillus Peters, 1868 , “Westafrika [= West Africa], Gambia , Gabon , Yoruba.” Restricted by W. Bergmans in 1989 to Yoruba [= Yorubaland], Nigeria . Micropteropus was described as a subgenus of Epomophorus to include pusillus , and K. Andersen in 1912 later considered it a valid genus with a single species, M. pusillus . Recent phylogenetic analyses by F. C. Almeida and others in 2016 recover pusillus deeply nested within typical Epomophorus , and it is therefore again included in Epomophorus , same treatment is given to E. intermedius . Monotypic.	From Senegal and Gambia through sub-Saharan Africa E to S Chad , Central African Republic , Sudan , South Sudan , extreme NE DR Congo , and Uganda to W Ethiopia , S to Gabon , S Republic of the Congo , and W DR Congo , also some isolated patches in S DR Congo and WC Angola .	Head-body 67-103 mm (males) and 67-85 mm (females), tail 0—4 mm , ear 13-19 mm , hindfoot 14-15 mm , forearm 46-55 mm (males) and 50- 56 mm (females); weight 20-43 g . Eyes are large;irises are light brown or chestnutbrown, sometimes with greenish tinge. Ears are brown and relativelylarge, with convex margins, rounded tips, and with pale yellow anterior and posterior light ear patches. Adult males have white epaulettes; adult females have curl of white hairs on shoulders of the same color and length as dorsal hairs. Dorsum is medium brown, reddish brown, grayish brown to pale brown; hairs are pale at bases; pelageis soft and dense, extending along forearm dorsally and ventrally, propatagium, and uropatagium; middorsal hairs are 9 mm ; and hairs on nape are 8 mm . Venter is pale brown, sometimes off-white, but without clear mid-venter whitish patch; pelage is sparser than on dorsum, especially on throat (generally bare), and hairs are ¢. 6 mm . Wings have claw on second digits, and membranes are chocolate to dull brown and attach to second toes. Skull is short; rostrum is relatively short and broad; zygomatic arches are weak; braincase is rather globose, slightly deflected against facial axis; and post-dental palate is almostflat, with prominent rim. There are six thick palatal ridges; first ridge is hastate, with tip pointing backward; next ridges are well developed and divided by wide medial gap that narrows posteriorly in V-shaped notch in ridge 6; ridges 5-6 are post-dental; and ridge 4 is partially post-dental, with up to four additional narrow, serrated ridges at back of palate. Dentition is relatively weak, and diastema between C' and anterior upper premolar (P?) is less pronounced as in the other species of Epomophorus ; upper incisors are cylindrical or slightly tapering and pointed; C' is short and excavated posteriorly; P? is caniniform and almost touching P*; lower incisors are slightly bilobed; P| and next premolar (P,) are close together, the former ¢.50% the height of the latter; and M, is slightly longer than wide. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 35 (males) and FNa = 64, with 13 pairs of metacentric or submetacentric and three pairs of medium-sized subtelocentric autosomes. Male chromosomes are XYY,, consisting of medium-sized subtelocentric X-chromosome, small submetacentric Ychromosome, and smaller subtelocentric Y-chromosome.	Primarily Guinea Savanna and Rainforest-Savanna Mosaic biotic zones, spreading into Sudan Savanna, Rainforest (penetrating along roads and other clearings), Somalia-Masai Bushland and Zambezian Woodland biotic zones from sea level up to elevations of ¢. 2000 m (mostly below 800 m ).	Seasonally, Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bats feed on flowers, but main foods are soft fruits, selected opportunistically, sometimes even on the ground. They forage in the evening, generally before 22:00 h. All fruits eaten are sweet, succulent, and more than 20 mm in polar diameter and can weight up to 75% of the body weight of the Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat. Each night, 1-3 fruits are eaten, generally at a feeding roost that can be 10-50 m away from the fruiting tree and used for several days. Large fruits are held between the foot, thumb, and second finger. Fruits from at least 16 genera in ten families are consumed. Flowers visited include species of Bignoniaceae ( Kigelia , Spathodea ), Malvaceae ( Adansonia , Ceiba ), Chrysobalanaceae ( Maranthes, Parinar ), and Fabaceae ( Parkia ).	Litter size of the Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat is one. In Ivory Coast , reproductive cycle is bimodal polyestry, with postpartum estrus. Births occur at beginning of long wet season in March and c.6 months later (September) at beginning of short wet season. Gestation lasts ¢.6 months. Lactation lasts 7-8 weeks for young born in March and c.11 weeks for young born in September. Females mature at ¢.6 months and give birth at c.12 months. Males enter puberty at c.7 months and become adult by ¢.9 months.	The Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat is nocturnal. It roosts in branches of low trees and brush, often near water, and never high aboveground;it hangs freely, sometimes in places where it is hardly protected from the sun.	Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bats roost alone or in small groups up to a dozen individuals. They roost with Gambian Epauletted Fruit Bats ( E. gambianus ), where they occupied lower parts of trees. In Ivory Coast , males were commonly found calling in Sudan Savanna but uncommonly in regenerating Guinean Savanna patches, perhaps suggesting there are geographical or habitatrelated differences in social structure and mating behavior. In Nigeria , Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bats are nomadic, with densities depending on availability of food.	Classified as Least Concern on The [UCN Red List (as Micropteropus pusillus ). The Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat has a wide distribution and large population. It is probably not declining fast enough to be assigned to a higher category. It is locally threatened by habitat loss and overharvesting for food.	Almeida, FC. et al. (2016) | Andersen (1912b) | Ayivor et al. (2017) | Bakwo & Kaleme (2016a) | Bergmans (1989) | Haiduk et al. (1980) | Kock et al. (2002) | Monadjem, Taylor et al. (2010) | Nesi et al. (2011) | Owen-Ashley & Wilson (1998) | Thomas (1984) | Thomas & Henry (2013b)		71. Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus pusillus French: Petit Epomophore / German: Zwerg-Epaulettenflughund / Spanish: Epomdforo pequeno Other common names: Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat , Peter's Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat , Peters’s Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat Taxonomy. Epomophorus pusillus Peters, 1868 , “Westafrika [= West Africa], Gambia , Gabon , Yoruba.” Restricted by W. Bergmans in 1989 to Yoruba [= Yorubaland], Nigeria . Micropteropus was described as a subgenus of Epomophorus to include pusillus , and K. Andersen in 1912 later considered it a valid genus with a single species, M. pusillus . Recent phylogenetic analyses by F. C. Almeida and others in 2016 recover pusillus deeply nested within typical Epomophorus , and it is therefore again included in Epomophorus , same treatment is given to E. intermedius . Monotypic. Distribution. From Senegal and Gambia through sub-Saharan Africa E to S Chad , Central African Republic , Sudan , South Sudan , extreme NE DR Congo , and Uganda to W Ethiopia , S to Gabon , S Republic of the Congo , and W DR Congo , also some isolated patches in S DR Congo and WC Angola . Descriptive notes. Head-body 67-103 mm (males) and 67-85 mm (females), tail 0—4 mm , ear 13-19 mm , hindfoot 14-15 mm , forearm 46-55 mm (males) and 50- 56 mm (females); weight 20-43 g . Eyes are large;irises are light brown or chestnutbrown, sometimes with greenish tinge. Ears are brown and relativelylarge, with convex margins, rounded tips, and with pale yellow anterior and posterior light ear patches. Adult males have white epaulettes; adult females have curl of white hairs on shoulders of the same color and length as dorsal hairs. Dorsum is medium brown, reddish brown, grayish brown to pale brown; hairs are pale at bases; pelageis soft and dense, extending along forearm dorsally and ventrally, propatagium, and uropatagium; middorsal hairs are 9 mm ; and hairs on nape are 8 mm . Venter is pale brown, sometimes off-white, but without clear mid-venter whitish patch; pelage is sparser than on dorsum, especially on throat (generally bare), and hairs are ¢. 6 mm . Wings have claw on second digits, and membranes are chocolate to dull brown and attach to second toes. Skull is short; rostrum is relatively short and broad; zygomatic arches are weak; braincase is rather globose, slightly deflected against facial axis; and post-dental palate is almostflat, with prominent rim. There are six thick palatal ridges; first ridge is hastate, with tip pointing backward; next ridges are well developed and divided by wide medial gap that narrows posteriorly in V-shaped notch in ridge 6; ridges 5-6 are post-dental; and ridge 4 is partially post-dental, with up to four additional narrow, serrated ridges at back of palate. Dentition is relatively weak, and diastema between C' and anterior upper premolar (P?) is less pronounced as in the other species of Epomophorus ; upper incisors are cylindrical or slightly tapering and pointed; C' is short and excavated posteriorly; P? is caniniform and almost touching P*; lower incisors are slightly bilobed; P| and next premolar (P,) are close together, the former ¢.50% the height of the latter; and M, is slightly longer than wide. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 35 (males) and FNa = 64, with 13 pairs of metacentric or submetacentric and three pairs of medium-sized subtelocentric autosomes. Male chromosomes are XYY,, consisting of medium-sized subtelocentric X-chromosome, small submetacentric Ychromosome, and smaller subtelocentric Y-chromosome. Habitat. Primarily Guinea Savanna and Rainforest-Savanna Mosaic biotic zones, spreading into Sudan Savanna, Rainforest (penetrating along roads and other clearings), Somalia-Masai Bushland and Zambezian Woodland biotic zones from sea level up to elevations of ¢. 2000 m (mostly below 800 m ). Food and Feeding. Seasonally, Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bats feed on flowers, but main foods are soft fruits, selected opportunistically, sometimes even on the ground. They forage in the evening, generally before 22:00 h. All fruits eaten are sweet, succulent, and more than 20 mm in polar diameter and can weight up to 75% of the body weight of the Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat. Each night, 1-3 fruits are eaten, generally at a feeding roost that can be 10-50 m away from the fruiting tree and used for several days. Large fruits are held between the foot, thumb, and second finger. Fruits from at least 16 genera in ten families are consumed. Flowers visited include species of Bignoniaceae ( Kigelia , Spathodea ), Malvaceae ( Adansonia , Ceiba ), Chrysobalanaceae ( Maranthes, Parinar ), and Fabaceae ( Parkia ). Breeding. Litter size of the Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat is one. In Ivory Coast , reproductive cycle is bimodal polyestry, with postpartum estrus. Births occur at beginning of long wet season in March and c.6 months later (September) at beginning of short wet season. Gestation lasts ¢.6 months. Lactation lasts 7-8 weeks for young born in March and c.11 weeks for young born in September. Females mature at ¢.6 months and give birth at c.12 months. Males enter puberty at c.7 months and become adult by ¢.9 months. Activity patterns. The Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat is nocturnal. It roosts in branches of low trees and brush, often near water, and never high aboveground;it hangs freely, sometimes in places where it is hardly protected from the sun. Movements, Home range and Social organization. Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bats roost alone or in small groups up to a dozen individuals. They roost with Gambian Epauletted Fruit Bats ( E. gambianus ), where they occupied lower parts of trees. In Ivory Coast , males were commonly found calling in Sudan Savanna but uncommonly in regenerating Guinean Savanna patches, perhaps suggesting there are geographical or habitatrelated differences in social structure and mating behavior. In Nigeria , Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bats are nomadic, with densities depending on availability of food. Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The [UCN Red List (as Micropteropus pusillus ). The Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat has a wide distribution and large population. It is probably not declining fast enough to be assigned to a higher category. It is locally threatened by habitat loss and overharvesting for food. Bibliography. Almeida, FC. et al. (2016), Andersen (1912b), Ayivor et al. (2017), Bakwo & Kaleme (2016a), Bergmans (1989), Haiduk et al. (1980), Kock et al. (2002), Monadjem, Taylor et al. (2010), Nesi et al. (2011), Owen-Ashley & Wilson (1998), Thomas (1984), Thomas & Henry (2013b).	Simmons, N.B. and A.L. Cirranello. 2022B. Bat Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic database. Accessed on 10/11/2022.	Pteropodidae	Epomophorus pusillus	Epomophorus		pusillus	Peters	1868	0	Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin	1881:30:00	Peters' Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat	None.	Nigeria, Yoruba (see Bergmans [1989] and Kock et al. [2002]).	Senegal and Gambia east to Ethiopia and Sudan; south to Angola, Zambia, Burundi, and Tanzania.	Not listed.	Least Concern as Micropteropus pusillus 	Previously considered a species of Micropteropus , but moved to Epomophorus by Almeida et al. (2020). See Owen-Ashley and Wilson (1998). For discussion of publication date, see Kock et al. (2002).	Mammal Diversity Database. (2023). Mammal Diversity Database (Version 1.11) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7830771 released 15 April 2023	Epomophorus pusillus	23	Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat	Peter's Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat|Peters's Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat	Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	CHIROPTERA	PTEROPODIFORMES	NA	NA	PTEROPODOIDEA	PTEROPODIDAE	ROUSETTINAE	EPOMOPHORINI	Epomophorus	NA	pusillus	W. Peters	1868	0	Epomophorus_pusillus	Peters, W. C .H. (1868). Eine Ãœbersicht der Flughunde. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1868 [for 1867], 870.	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/112419#page/916/mode/1up	ZMB 3438		"Westafrika [= West Africa], Gambia, Gabon, Yoruba." Restricted by W. Bergmans in 1989 to Yoruba [= Yorubaland], Nigeria.			pusillus W. Peters, 1868	moved from Micropteropus to Epomophorus	Almeida, F. C., Simmons, N. B., & Giannini, N. P. (2020). A Species-level Phylogeny of Old World Fruit Bats with a New Higher-level Classification of the Family Pteropodidae. American Museum Novitates, 3950, 1-24.	Senegal|Gambia|Guinea-Bissau|Guinea|Sierra Leone|Liberia|Mali|Côte d'Ivoire|Ghana|Togo|Benin|Burkina Faso|Nigeria|Niger|Cameroon|Chad|Central African Republic|Sudan|South Sudan|Ethiopia|Kenya|Uganda|Rwanda|Burundi|Tanzania|Democratic Republic of the Congo|Angola|Republic of the Congo|Gabon|Equatorial Guinea	Africa	Afrotropic	LC	0	0	0	Epomophorus_pusillus	0	sciname match	Micropteropus_pusillus	0	IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. https://www.iucnredlist.org. Accessed on [28 September, 2022].	13402	Micropteropus pusillus	ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	CHIROPTERA	PTEROPODIDAE	Micropteropus	pusillus	(Peters, 1868)		200000000	Micropteropus pusillus	Least Concern		2020	2014-04-02 00:00:00 UTC	3.1	English	Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, it occurs in a number of protected areas, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.	This species has been recorded from a wide variety of primary and secondary habitats. Populations are typically found in savanna woodlands, but can be encountered in tropical moist forest, swamp forest, bushland, edaphic grasslands and mosaics of these habitats. This species forages early in the evening, preferably before 22:00h. It is an opportunistic forager of fruits and flowers, traveling widely each night to find food, and could be of economic importance for pollination. Because of its small size, this species tends to feed on smaller and softer fruits than do larger bats. Wilson (1973) listed this bat as being 80% frugivorous and 20% nectarivorous.	It is locally threatened by habitat loss and degradation. In Equatorial Guinea, local people eat M. pusillus (Fa 2000). This could lead populations to decline.	This is generally considered to be one of the most common African bats. Micropteropus pusillus is seldom gregarious and mostly roosts alone or in two, but may be found in groups of up to ten individuals. These groups are usually well-spaced throughout the roosting site.	Stable	This species is distributed in West Africa, Central Africa and East Africa. It ranges from Senegal and The Gambia, throughout much of West Africa to Cameroon, from here it is distributed into Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni), Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda and western Ethiopia and Kenya. It is found as far south as central Angola.	For information on use and trade, see under Threats.	Terrestrial	In view of the species wide range it seems probable that it is present in many protected areas. In general, no direct conservation measures are currently needed for this species as a whole. But studies are needed in the species home range countries to have indications on population trends and details on its ecology.	Afrotropical		FALSE	FALSE	Global	Simmons, N. B., & Cirranello, A. L. (2023). Batnames.org Species List Version 1.4 (1.4). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8136157 	Pteropodidae	Epomophorus		pusillus	Peters	1868	0	Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin	1881:30:00	Peters' Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat	None.	Nigeria, Yoruba (see Bergmans [1989] and Kock et al. [2002]).	Senegal and Gambia east to Ethiopia and Sudan; south to Angola, Zambia, Burundi, and Tanzania.	Not listed.	Least Concern as Micropteropus pusillus 	Previously considered a species of Micropteropus , but moved to Epomophorus by Almeida et al. (2020). See Owen-Ashley and Wilson (1998). For discussion of publication date, see Kock et al. (2002).	Epomophorus pusillus	1004525	23	Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat	Peter's Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat|Peters's Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat	Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	CHIROPTERA	PTEROPODIFORMES	NA	NA	PTEROPODOIDEA	Pteropodidae	ROUSETTINAE	EPOMOPHORINI	Epomophorus	NA	pusillus	W. Peters	1868	0	Epomophorus_pusillus	Peters, W. C .H. (1868). Eine Ãœbersicht der Flughunde. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1868 [for 1867], 870.	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/112419#page/916/mode/1up	ZMB 3438		"Westafrika [= West Africa], Gambia, Gabon, Yoruba." Restricted by W. Bergmans in 1989 to Yoruba [= Yorubaland], Nigeria.			pusillus W. Peters, 1868	moved from Micropteropus to Epomophorus	Almeida, F. C., Simmons, N. B., & Giannini, N. P. (2020). A Species-level Phylogeny of Old World Fruit Bats with a New Higher-level Classification of the Family Pteropodidae. American Museum Novitates, 3950, 1-24.				Senegal|Gambia|Guinea-Bissau|Guinea|Sierra Leone|Liberia|Mali|Côte d'Ivoire|Ghana|Togo|Benin|Burkina Faso|Nigeria|Niger|Cameroon|Chad|Central African Republic|Sudan|South Sudan|Ethiopia|Kenya|Uganda|Rwanda|Burundi|Tanzania|Democratic Republic of the Congo|Angola|Republic of the Congo|Gabon|Equatorial Guinea	Africa	Afrotropic	LC	0	0	0	Epomophorus_pusillus	0	sciname match	Micropteropus_pusillus	0	Burgin, C. J., Zijlstra, J. S., Becker, M. A., Handika, H., Alston, J. M., Widness, J., Liphardt, S., Huckaby, D. G., and Upham, N. S. (2025). How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge. Journal of Mammalogy in revision: TBD. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.27.640393	Epomophorus_pusillus	1004525	23	Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat	Peter's Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat|Peters's Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat	Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	Chiroptera	Yinpterochiroptera	NA	NA	Pteropodoidea	Pteropodidae	Epomophorinae	Epomophorini	Epomophorus	NA	pusillus	W. C. H. Peters	0	Epomophorus pusillus	Peters, W.C.H. 1868. Fortsetzung und den Schluss einer Ãœbersicht der Flederhunde. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1867:865-872.	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36511169	ZMB 3438	holotype		"Westafrika [= West Africa], Gambia, Gabon, Yoruba." Restricted by W. Bergmans in 1989 to Yoruba [= Yorubaland], Nigeria.			moved from Micropteropus to Epomophorus	Almeida, F. C., Simmons, N. B., & Giannini, N. P. (2020). A Species-level Phylogeny of Old World Fruit Bats with a New Higher-level Classification of the Family Pteropodidae. American Museum Novitates, 3950, 1-24.				Senegal|Gambia|Guinea-Bissau|Guinea|Sierra Leone|Liberia|Mali|Cote d'Ivoire|Ghana|Togo|Benin|Burkina Faso|Nigeria|Niger|Cameroon|Chad|Central African Republic|Sudan|South Sudan|Ethiopia|Kenya|Uganda|Rwanda|Burundi|Tanzania|Democratic Republic of the Congo|Angola|Republic of the Congo|Gabon|Equatorial Guinea	Africa	Afrotropic	LC	0	0	0	Epomophorus_pusillus	0	sciname match	Micropteropus_pusillus	0	Simmons, N. B., & Cirranello, A. L. (2025). Batnames.org Species List Version 1.7 (1.7). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14796586	Pteropodidae	Epomophorus		pusillus	Peters	1868	0	Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin	1881:30:00	Peters' Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat	None.	Nigeria, Yoruba (see Bergmans [1989] and Kock et al. [2002]).	Senegal and Gambia east to Ethiopia and Sudan; south to Angola, Zambia, Burundi, and Tanzania.	<a href='https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php' target='_blank'>Not Listed</a>	<a href='https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/13402/166518027/' target='_blank'>Least Concern</a>	Previously considered a species of Micropteropus, but moved to Epomophorus by Almeida et al. (2020). See Owen-Ashley and Wilson (1998). For discussion of publication date, see Kock et al. (2002).		Mammal Diversity Database. (2025). Mammal Diversity Database (Version 2.2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15007505	NA	Micropteropus pusillus; Epomophorus pusillus; Epomophorus pusillus; Epomophorus pusillus; Micropteropus pusillus; Epomophorus pusillus; pusillus; Petit Epomophore; Zwerg-Epaulettenflughund; Epomdforo pequeno; Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat; Peter's Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat; Peters’s Lesser Epauletted; Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat; Peter's Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat; Peters's Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat; Peters's Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat; Peters' Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat; E. pusillus