Black-capped Fruit Bat vs Fish-bone Cassia

Chironax melanocephalus compared with Chamaecrista mimosoides

Taxonomic Classification

Rank Black-capped Fruit Bat Fish-bone Cassia
Kingdom Animalia (Animals) Plantae (Plants)
Phylum Chordata (Chordates) Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class Mammalia (Mammals) Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order Chiroptera (Bats) Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats) Fabaceae
Genus Chironax Chamaecrista
Species Chironax melanocephalus Chamaecrista mimosoides

Conservation Status

Black-capped Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

Fish-bone Cassia

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute Black-capped Fruit Bat Fish-bone Cassia
Diet
Average Lifespan
Average Length
Average Weight

Habitat & Geographic Range

Black-capped Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Fish-bone Cassia

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and montane grasslands and shrublands spanning the Australasia and Indomalayan and Oceanian realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Comoros, Guinea, Madagascar), Asia (4 countries), and Oceania and the Pacific (6 countries).

Black-capped Fruit Bat

The Black-capped Fruit Bat (Chironax melanocephalus) is a species in the genus Chironax. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Fish-bone Cassia

No description available.

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