Rousettus Gray, 1821 . London Med. Repos., 15:299.

TYPE SPECIES: Pteropus aegyptiacus E. Geoffroy, 1810 .

SYNONYMS: Lissonycteris, Stenonycteris .

COMMENTS: Includes Lissonycteris; see Koopman (1975:361-362). Corbet and Hill (1980:36) listed Lissonycteris as a distinct genus without comment.