Short-tailed roundleaf bat

The short-tailed roundleaf bat, Hipposideros curtus, is a leaf-nosed bat confirmed in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, with Nigeria possible. Glover Morrill Allen described it in 1921 from a specimen collected in Cameroon in 1920 by the Reverend George W. Schwab, and the species name is Latin for short, after its very short tail. It belongs to the bicolor species group. The forearm is 42 to 47 millimetres and the one weighed individual was about 7.1 grams. It lives in lowland tropical forest below 500 metres and in caves. In 2016 the ecologist Iroro Tanshi found a population near the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary in southern Nigeria and worked with local people to protect it. The IUCN lists it as Endangered because its caves are confined to under 2,000 square kilometres and the habitat is fragmented and declining.