The Egyptian mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma cystops) is a species of mouse-tailed bat found in North Africa and the Middle East.
The holotype had been collected near Luxor, Egypt by Charles Rothschild.
[4] It is a colonial species, forming aggregations consisting of a few individuals or as many as one thousand.
[5] Its range includes several countries and regions in North Africa and the Middle East: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Western Sahara, and Yemen.
It meets the criteria for this classification because it has a wide geographic range and no major threats to its existence are known.