Vieira's long-tongued bat

Vieira's long-tongued bat, Xeronycteris vieirai, is a bat from northeastern Brazil. It was discovered in 2005 by Gregorin and Ditchfield, who described it as new to science, which makes it one of the more recently recognised bats of the region. It is the only species in the genus Xeronycteris, so it has no close relatives within its own genus. The GBIF taxonomic backbone places it in the leaf-nosed bat family Phyllostomidae of the order Chiroptera. The short sources used for this entry do not describe its diet, roosting habits or conservation status in detail, so those facts remain open for later research.