Rousettus

Rousettus is a genus of Old World fruit bats or megabats, referred to as rousette bats. The genus is a member of the family Pteropodidae. The genus consists of seven species^[1] that range over most of Africa to southeast Asia, and the islands of the south Pacific. They are among the few megabats capable of echolocation, and the only genus of megabats known to use vocal echolocation.^[2]

Rousettus
Egyptian rousette or Egyptian fruit bat, Rousettus aegypticus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Pteropodidae
Subfamily:	Rousettinae
Tribe:	Rousettini Andersen, 1912
Genus:	Rousettus Gray, 1821
Type species
Pteropus aegyptiacus Geoffroy, 1810
Species
7 species, see text

Classification

Genus Rousettus – rousette fruit bats

• Geoffroy's rousette, R. amplexicaudatus
• Egyptian fruit bat or Egyptian rousette, R. aegyptiacus
• Leschenault's rousette, R. leschenaulti
• Linduan rousette, R. linduensis
• Comoro rousette, R. obliviosus
• Bare-backed rousette, R. spinalatus
• Madagascan rousette, R. madagascariensis

The species in the genera Boneia, Stenonycteris, and Pilonycteris were also formerly classified in Rousettus, but phylogenetic analysis supports them being their own genera.