''Brachyphylla'' (Caribbean fruit-eating bat) is a genus of

leaf-nosed bat The New World leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae) are bats (order Chiroptera) found from southern North America to South America, specifically from the Southwest United States to northern Argentina. Both the scientific and common names derive from ...

s in the family Phyllostomidae. Both species live on islands near or in the

Caribbean The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America ...

. The genus contains the following species: * Cuban fruit-eating bat (''B. nana'') * Antillean fruit-eating bat (''B. cavernarum'')

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Phyllostomidae Bat genera Taxa named by John Edward Gray Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{leafnosed-bat-stub