The golden short-palated fruit bat is a fruit bat of the Congo Basin Forest. It has white fur patches near its nose and behind its eyes.
It has white fur patches on its nose and behind the eyes. It is intermediate in body size among the three related tribe members discussed.
It is a fruit-eating megabat. The study describes the three members of its tribe as restricted to Africa's evergreen tropical rainforests.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.