Rousettus (Rousettus) aegyptiacus (E. Geoffroy 1810)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 313-350 : 347

Rousettus (Rousettus) aegyptiacus (E. Geoffroy 1810)

[Pteropus] aegyptiacus E. Geoffroy 1810 , Ann. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat. Paris, 15: 96.

Type Locality: Egypt, Giza (Great Pyramid).

Vernacular Names: Egyptian Rousette.

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

Distribution: Senegal and Egypt south to South Africa; Cyprus, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, S Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, S Iraq, S. Iran, Pakistan, NW India; islands in the Gulf of Guinea ( São Tomé and Príncipe); adjacent small islands.

Conservation: IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).

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).