Equatorial dog-faced bat

The equatorial dog-faced bat (Cabreramops aequatorianus) is an insect-eating bat of the family Molossidae that is endemic to Ecuador. It lives in dry tropical forest in the west central part of the country and has been found at only two locations. The Spanish zoologist Marcos Jimenez de la Espada discovered it in November 1864, when he found four females roosting in the crack of an old tree near the Guayas River at Babahoyo, together with harmless serotine bats. Angel Cabrera described it in 1917. It was once placed in the genus Molossops and is now usually regarded as the sole species of the genus Cabreramops. Its extent of occurrence is estimated at about 4,000 square kilometres. The IUCN rated it vulnerable in 1996 and 2008 and raised it to endangered in 2016, because it occurs at fewer than five locations and its habitat is being converted to farmland, with aquaculture also threatening swampy areas.