''Brachyphylla'' (Caribbean fruit-eating bat) is a genus of

leaf-nosed bat The New World leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae) are found from southern North America to South America, specifically from the Southwest United States to northern Argentina. They are ecologically the most varied and diverse family within the order ...

s in the family Phyllostomidae. Both species live on islands near or in the

Caribbean The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...

. The genus contains the following species: *

Cuban fruit-eating bat The Cuban fruit-eating bat (''Brachyphylla nana'') is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae found in the Cayman Islands, Cuba, and Hispaniola (both the Dominican Republic and Haiti).It has been extirpated from the Bahamas and Jamaica ...

(''B. nana'') *

Antillean fruit-eating bat The Antillean fruit-eating bat (''Brachyphylla cavernarum'') is one of two leaf-nosed bat species belonging to the genus ''Brachyphylla''. The species occurs in the Caribbean from Puerto Rico to St. Vincent and Barbados. Fossil specimens have als ...

(''B. cavernarum'')

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Phyllostomidae Bat genera Taxa named by John Edward Gray Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{leafnosed-bat-stub