Pteropodidae Rhinolophidae Hipposideridae Megadermatidae Craseonycteridae Rhinopomatidae Yangochiroptera Fruit bats, also known as flying foxes or megabats, are the 197 species of bats that make up the suborder Megachiroptera, found throughout the tropics of Africa, Asia, and Oceania, of which 186 are extant.
The suborder is part of the order Chiroptera (bats), and contains a single family, Pteropodidae.
The family is divided into between two and six subfamilies, with recent phylogenetic analysis suggesting a different classification structure of the known species than before.
[4][5] The Yinpterochiroptera is a proposed suborder of the Chiroptera based on molecular evidence consisting of the fruit bats and five other microbat families: Rhinopomatidae, Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae, Craseonycteridae, and Megadermatidae.
There are between two and six recognized subfamilies of fruit bats according to various authors: Cynopterinae, Epomophorinae, Harpionycterinae, Nyctimeninae, Macroglossinae, Rousettinae, and Pteropodinae.