Family PTEROPODIDAE

(OLD WORLD FRUIT BATS)

• Small to verylarge fruit and nectar feeding bats ofthe Old Worldtropics.

• 6-40 cm.

• Palearctic, Afrotropical, Indo-Malayan, and Australasian Regions.

• From montane and lowland tropical rainforests to open woodlands and desert.

• 46 genera, 191 species, at least 330 extant taxa. •

• 8 species Critically Endangered, 16 species Endangered, 37 species Vulnerable; 6 species Extinct since 1600.