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Pteropodidae
Old World fruit bats
(Also: flying foxes)



  • black-eared flying fox
    Pteropus melanotus
  • little golden-mantled flying fox
    Pteropus pumilus
  • little golden-mantled flying fox
    Pteropus pumilus

  • Rodriguez flying fox
    Pteropus rodricensis
  • Madagascan flying fox
    Pteropus rufus
  • little red flying fox
    Pteropus scapulatus

  • Pacific flying fox
    Pteropus tonganus
  • Egyptian rousette
    Rousettus aegyptiacus
  • Leschenault's rousette
    Rousettus leschenaultii

  • southern blossom bat
    Syconycteris australis



To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2012. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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