Honduran fruit-eating bat

The Honduran fruit-eating bat, Artibeus inopinatus, is a small leaf-nosed bat in the family Phyllostomidae that lives along the Pacific coast of Central America in El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. It averages about 36 grams, lacks a tail, has a narrow patagium and a densely furred uropatagium, and closely resembles its relative Artibeus hirsutus. Unlike many relatives it stays at low elevations, rarely above 200 metres, in thorn-scrub habitat, and has been netted over streams and in banana groves; it also roosts by day in empty houses and in caves. Colonies contain many more females than males, and the diet is fruit, insects and some pollen. Its body temperature can swing widely, from about 29 to 39.2 degrees Celsius, without the bat entering torpor. The IUCN lists the species as Data Deficient and little is known of its life history.