Description
The Jamaican fruit bat is a medium-sized bat, having a total length of 78-89 mm with a 96-150 mm wingspan and weighing 40 to 60 g. It has broad but pointed and ridged ears with a serrated tragus. Its prominent noseleaf has an array sebaceous glands. The lower lip is littered with warts with a relatively large one in the center. Sebaceous holocrine glands can be found in both lips. On the back the fur is an ashy-shade of gray or brown with visible white hair bases. The wings of the fruit bat are broad and dark gray in color. The underfur is paler in color. The fruit bat has no external tail. It has broad dark grey wings and a narrow hairless interfemoral membrane with a short calcar.
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