Artibeus aequatorialis

Artibeus aequatorialis, known as Anderson's fruit-eating bat or the Ecuadorian fruit-eating bat, is a bat of the family Phyllostomidae that is endemic to northwestern South America west of the Andes. It was long treated as a subspecies of the Jamaican fruit bat, Artibeus jamaicensis, until Larsen raised it to species level on the basis of morphometric and genetic data. It is found in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, where it inhabits tropical dry forests and the tropical lowland forests of the Chocó, and it seems to be more common in humid forests. The northernmost and southernmost limits of its range are unknown. The IUCN has assessed it as least concern because of its large range and relative abundance. Its threats are not known, and it occurs in some private and national nature reserves in western Ecuador and in some national parks in Peru.