Order Chiroptera, Family Pteropodidae, Subfamily Pteropodinae, Tribe Cynopterini, Subtribe Cynopterina, Genus Cynopterus. Five species are recognized: C. brachyotis, C. horsfieldi, C. nusatenggara, C. sphinx, and C. titthaecheileus (Koopman, 1993). A key to the species is given in Lekagul and McNeely (1977)
