Mammals of the WorldGeoffroy's Rousette
Rousettus amplexicaudatus
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Pteropodidae
- Genus
- Rousettus
- IUCN status
- LC
- Distribution
- Myanmar|China|Laos|Vietnam|Cambodia|Thailand|Malaysia|Singapore?|Indonesia|Brunei|Philippines|East Timor|Papua New Guinea|Solomon Islands
- Realm
- Indomalaya|Australasia
Other names: Common Rousette
About this species
Geoffroy's rousette is a fruit bat, one of ten species in the genus Rousettus. It occurs throughout Southeast Asia and the Malesia region of Oceania, in Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Borneo, Timor-Leste, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago and Papua New Guinea. Like other fruit bats it has sensitive hearing and smell and good eyesight (Wikipedia, general species account). The species (Rousettus amplexicaudatus) belongs to megabat or Old World fruit bats. (Wikipedia, general species account).
Geoffroy's rousette occurs throughout Southeast Asia and in the Malesia region of Oceania, in Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, the island of Borneo, Timor-Leste, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, and Papua New Guinea. It sometimes has pale yellow tufts of hair on the side of its neck which occur in adult for this species, especially males. The external measurements are within the range of 78 to 87 millimetres (3.1 to 3.4 in) recorded in previous studies. (Wikipedia, general species account).
Description: Wildlife of sulawesi guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)