7 species, see text Rousettus is a genus of Old World fruit bats or megabats, referred to as rousette bats.

The genus is a member of the family Pteropodidae.

The genus consists of seven species[1] that range over most of Africa to southeast Asia, and the islands of the south Pacific.

[2] Genus Rousettus – rousette fruit bats The species in the genera Boneia, Stenonycteris, and Pilonycteris were also formerly classified in Rousettus, but phylogenetic analysis supports them being their own genera.

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