 It has a variety of internal and external parasites, including nematodes, cestodes, trematodes, mites, ticks, and bat flies.The dwarf dog-faced bat was first named by Danish zoologist Peter Wilhelm Lund in 1842, who placed it in the now-defunct genus "Dysopes", with a scientific name of "Dysopes temminckii".However, Lund's name was deemed a "nomen nudum" ("naked name", or unaccepted due to inadequate taxon description), and thus Lund is not recognized as the taxonomic authority.