Aethalops

Aethalops (Meaning: sooty bat) is a genus of megabats in the family Pteropodidae. It contains two species: Borneo fruit bat, A. aequalis Pygmy fruit bat, A. alecto

==Taxonomy== Aethalops was described as a new genus in 1923 by British mammalogist Oldfield Thomas. Thomas named the genus Aethalodes, though that name was already in use for a genus of beetle. Thomas then suggested the name Aethalops in a subsequent publication to remedy the problem. The type species for the genus was the pygmy fruit bat, Aethalops alecto, which had been collected in Sumatra by Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus.