Jamaican flower bat

The Jamaican flower bat, Phyllonycteris aphylla, is a critically endangered bat of the family Phyllostomidae that is found only on Jamaica. The American zoologist Gerrit Smith Miller Jr. described it in 1898, and the type specimen has since been lost. Its species name aphylla means leafless in Ancient Greek, probably for its small nose-leaf. It weighs 14 to 18 grams, with blond or light gold back fur, almost white belly fur and dark brown flight membranes. It lives in colonies of up to several hundred and depends on caves for roosting, now known from only four caves. It eats fruit, pollen, nectar and possibly insects. The IUCN rated it critically endangered in 2015 because its population is under 500 individuals and likely declining, and human disturbance of caves threatens it.