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the web of life in southern Africa

Family: Pteropodidae (fruit bats)

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Deuterostomia > Chordata > Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates)  > Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class: Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota > Synapsida (mammal-like reptiles) > Therapsida > Theriodontia >  Cynodontia > Mammalia (mammals) > Placentalia (placental mammals) > Laurasiatheria > Chiroptera (bats) > Megachiroptera

Species indigenous to southern Africa

Epomophorus wahlbergi (Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat)

Epomophorus angolensis (Angolan epauletted fruit bat)

Epomophorus gambianus (Gambian epauletted fruit bat, Peters' epauletted fruit bat)

Epomops dobsonii (Dobson's fruit bat)

 

Eidolon helvum (Straw-coloured fruit bat)

Rousettus aegyptiacus (Egyptian rousette, Fruit bat, Egyptian fruit bat)

 

Lissonycteris angolensis (Bocage's fruit bat)

 

Myonyeteris relieta (East African little-collared fruit bat)