Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals Subclass Theria Parker & Haswell, 1897 Order Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 - bats Family Pteropodidae Gray, 1821 - Old World fruit bats Genus Rousettus Gray, 1821 - rousette fruit bats Subgenus Rousettus Gray, 1821 Rousettus aegyptiacus (Geoffroy, 1810) - Egyptian rousette Rousettus aegyptiacus arabicus Anderson & de Winton, 1902