Fijian monkey-faced bat

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Fijian monkey-faced bat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Genus: Mirimiri
Species: M. acrodonta
Binomial name
Mirimiri acrodonta
(Hill & Beckon, 1978)

The Fijian monkey-faced bat (Mirimiri acrodonta) is an Old World fruit bat endemic to Fiji. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss. It has recently been transferred from Pteralopex to its own monotypic genus Mirimiri.

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