Benito roundleaf bat

The Benito roundleaf bat, Hipposideros beatus, is a leaf-nosed bat of Central and West Africa, recorded from Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo, mostly below 500 metres. Knud Andersen described it in 1906 from a specimen collected 24 kilometres from the Benito River by George Latimer Bates, and two subspecies are recognized. It has fine, fluffy dark brown fur and relatively short ears of 12 to 16 millimetres, weighs 6 to 9.5 grams and has a forearm of 39 to 48 millimetres. It breeds once a year, with mating in June and July and a single young born in October and November. Its habitat is tropical moist lowland forest, and the IUCN lists it as Least Concern.