Miniopterus manavi (Manavi long-fingered bat) is a
bat in the genus
Miniopterus that occurs in east-central
Madagascar. First described in 1906, this species was later included in the mainland African
M. minor. A 1995 revision united populations of small
Miniopterus from Madagascar and the
Comoros as
M. manavi, but
molecular and
morphological studies in 2008 and 2009 showed that this concept of
M. manavi in fact included five different species.
M. manavi itself was restricted to a few locations in the eastern
Central Highlands and populations in the Comoros and northern and western Madagascar were allocated to different species.