Azagnyi fruit bat

The Azagnyi fruit bat (Megaloglossus azagnyi), also called the western Woermann fruit bat, is a small megabat of West Africa. It was described as a new species in 2012 when the Woermann bat, until then the only member of the genus Megaloglossus, was split in two; its name comes from Azagny National Park in Ivory Coast, the type locality. It is a relatively small frugivorous bat weighing 9 to 14 g with a forearm of 38 to 42 mm. The fur is uniformly dark brown, a little paler underneath, and males wear a collar of creamy white fur across the neck. It looks much like Woermann bat but has smaller skull dimensions. The range covers several West African countries, including Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Togo, and it is found in association with lowland rainforest. The IUCN currently evaluates it as least concern.