Geoffroy's rousette

Weight

67.5 g – 82.9 gsrc for Weight

Length

Not recorded

Wingspan

47.5 cm – 49.7 cmsrc for Wingspan

Lifespan

7.98 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Frugivoresrc for Diet

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

Not recorded

Gestation

101 dayssrc for Gestation

Young per litter or clutch

0.99src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

8.5 monthssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

2src for Litters or clutches a year

Active

At night (nocturnal)src for Active

Lifestyle

Arborealsrc for Lifestyle

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status

Countries on record

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The geoffroy's rousette is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

The geoffroy's rousette is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

1. LCLeast Concern
2. NTNear Threatened
3. VUVulnerable
4. ENEndangered
5. CRCritically Endangered
6. EWExtinct in the Wild
7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classMammalia
4. orderChiroptera
5. familyPteropodidae
6. genusRousettus
7. SpeciesRousettus amplexicaudatus (E. Geoffroy, 1810)

Synonyms Pteropus amplexicaudatus

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

LC, Least Concern

Egyptian fruit bat

Rousettus aegyptiacus

Pteropodidae

NT, Near Threatened

Leschenault's rousette

Rousettus leschenaultii

Pteropodidae

VU, Vulnerable

Madagascan rousette

Rousettus madagascariensis

Pteropodidae

LC, Least Concern

Sulawesi rousette

Rousettus celebensis

Pteropodidae

VU, Vulnerable

Bare-backed rousette

Rousettus spinalatus

Pteropodidae

VU, Vulnerable

C

Comoro rousette

Rousettus obliviosus

PteropodidaeNo free photo yet

CompareGeoffroy's rousette vs Egyptian fruit batGeoffroy's rousette vs Leschenault's rousetteGeoffroy's rousette vs Madagascan rousetteGeoffroy's rousette vs Sulawesi rousette

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@misc{geoffroys_rousette_2026,
  title = {Geoffroy's rousette (Rousettus amplexicaudatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/geoffroys-rousette},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}