''Rhinophylla'' is a genus of

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...

bat Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera (). With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out ...

s in the family Phyllostomidae containing these species: *

Hairy little fruit bat The hairy little fruit bat (''Rhinophylla alethina'') is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae found in Colombia and Ecuador. They are nocturnal creatures. They are listed as near-threatened by the IUCN The International Union for Co ...

, ''R. alethina'' *

Fischer's little fruit bat Fischer's little fruit bat (''Rhinophylla fischerae'') is a bat species found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America ...

, ''R. fischerae'' *

Dwarf little fruit bat The dwarf little fruit bat (''Rhinophylla pumilio'') is a species of leaf-nosed bat from South America. Description As its name implies, the dwarf little fruit bat is a relatively small bat. Adults are just in head-body length, and weigh only . ...

, ''R. pumilio''

References

Phyllostomidae Bat genera Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{leafnosed-bat-stub