Rousettus aegyptiacus (Geoffroy, 1810)

Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, Zootaxa 5580 (1), pp. 1-130 : 61

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8D0A37EA-8D5B-44D9-B2CC-8161D1E4AF54

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15121327

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3874162A-7E64-FFED-FF42-FC8CB7291603

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Rousettus aegyptiacus (Geoffroy, 1810)
status

 

48. Egyptian Rousette, Rousettus aegyptiacus (Geoffroy, 1810) View in CoL

( Fig. 54 View FIGURE 54 )

(IUCN Red List: LC)

Subspecies: R. a. aegyptiacus (Geoffroy, 1810) .

Distribution: Uncommon; confined to various agricultural lands. Coastal region, Orontes Basin, Yarmuk Valley, and north of Aleppo ( Fig. 55 View FIGURE 55 ).

Previous records: Al Watta Cave ( Frumkin 1988), Hamama ( Shehab & Mamkhair 2004), Tell Shhab, Qal’at al-Hosson, Odem Forest ( Benda et al. 2006), Hamama ( Shehab et al. 2007), Al-Furunlok ( Daoud & Khalil 2009b), and Al-Dawwar Cave ( Al-Ramadan et al. 2020).

Recent records: Al-Bahlouliyah (2018); Seifat, north of Aleppo, and Mashqita (2020).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Pteropodidae

Genus

Rousettus

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