Long-tongued fruit bats

Long-tongued fruit bats

Order : Chiroptera
Family : Pteropodidae
Subfamily : Macroglossinae
Genus : Macroglossus

Facts about the genus Macroglossus, the long-tongued fruit bats

The Macroglossidae, or long-tongued fruit bats, are widespread throughout S Asia, Africa, New Guinea, and Australia. (Full text)

Senecio macroglossus is found on the eastern coast of South Africa from around Knysna in the Western Cape through East London in the Eastern Cape and further north into Lesotho and the KwaZulu-Natal south coast, where it is commonly found growing in forest and thicket margins. (Full text)