Genus of bats
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 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.
Classification.
Genus "Rousettus" – rousette fruit bats
The species in the genera "Boneia", "Stenonycteris", and "Pilonycteris" were also formerly classified in "Rousettus", but phylogenetic analysis supports them being their own genera.
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