The canyon bat is a small gray-brown bat of dry western North America. It uses rocky and arid habitats and begins foraging soon after sunset.
It is a small brown-gray bat with a black, leathery face, ears, and wing membranes. The underside is pale brown-gray.
It starts foraging early in the evening and uses echolocation to find small swarms of insects. Day roosts include rock crevices, spaces under rocks, burrows, mines, and buildings.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.