Peterson's Free-tailed Bat is a small free-tailed bat recorded in rainforests of Ghana and Cameroon. Few records are known, all from limited forest localities.
An African bat key separates this small species by its forearm length of less than 35 mm.
Records summarized in the 2021 IUCN assessment are from rainforest: one locality in Ghana and five in Cameroon. The sources it reviewed had no records from disturbed areas.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.