Long-tongued fruit bat

The long-tongued fruit bat (Macroglossus sobrinus) is a species of megabat.

It is nectarivorous, feeding on nectar from primarily banana flowers.

Andersen described it as a subspecies of the long-tongued nectar bat, with the trinomen Macroglossus minimus sobrinus.

Andersen noted that it differed from the long-tongued nectar bat in several ways.

[4] The long-tongued fruit bat feeds on nectar almost exclusively from banana flowers.