A small fruit-eating bat widespread in northern South America. It lacks a tail and uses folded leaves as daytime roost tents.
It has no tail, a reduced interfemoral membrane, and a triangular central chin pad bordered by elongated fleshy pads.
It roosts in leaf tents by day and sometimes uses them as night feeding roosts, changing tents every few days. Its diet consists mainly of small-seeded fruits.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.