Egyptian Rousette
Rousettus aegyptiacus (E.Geoffroy, 1810)
Also calledEgiptiese Vrugtevlermuis (afr) · Egiptinis skraidantysis šuo (lit) · Egyptflygehund (nob) · Murciélago frugívoro de Egipto (spa) · Nijlroezet (nld) · Nijlrousette (nld) · Nil-Flughund (deu) · Nilflughund (deu) · Pipistrello della frutta egiziano (ita) · Ratpenat frugívor d'Egipte (cat) · Rossetto egiziano (ita) · Rousette d' Égypte (fra) · Roussette d'Egypte (fra) · Roussette d’Egypte (fra)
First described in: Ann. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat. Paris vol.15 p.96
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution: Uncommon; confined to various agricultural lands. Coastal region, Orontes Basin, Yarmuk Valley, and north of Aleppo (Fig. 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 2009 b), and Al-Dawwar Cave (Al-Ramadan et al. 2020). Recent records: Al-Bahlouliyah (2018); Seifat, north of Aleppo, and Mashqita (2020).
Checklist of Mammals of Syria
child_taxa
Subspecies:: Subspecies Rousettus (Rousettus) aegyptiacus subsp. aegyptiacus E. Geoffroy 1810 Subspecies Rousettus (Rousettus) aegyptiacus subsp. arabicus Anderson and de Winton 1902 Subspecies Rousettus (Rousettus) aegyptiacus subsp. leachii Smith 1892 Subspecies Rousettus (Rousettus) aegyptiacus subsp. princes Juste and Iba ± ez 1993 Subspecies Rousettus (Rousettus) aegyptiacus subsp. tomensis Juste and Iba ± ez 1993 Subspecies Rousettus (Rousettus) aegyptiacus subsp. unicolor Gray 1870
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
conservation
Conservation: IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
discussion
Discussion: Subgenus Rousettus. Includes leachii and arabicus; see Hayman and Hill (1971), Corbet (1978 c), Harrison and Bates (1991), and Bergmans (1994). Revised by Bergmans (1994); reviewed in part by Bates and Harrison (1997) and Horácek et al. (2000). Also see Kwiecinski and Griffiths (1999). Spelling changed from aegyptiacus to egyptiacus by Corbet and Hill (1992), but returned to aegyptiacus by Kock (2001 a).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2432953.