Black-capped Fruit Bat vs Guava

Chironax melanocephalus compared with Psidium guajava

Key Differences

• Black-capped Fruit Bat is Least Concern while Guava is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Black-capped Fruit Bat	Guava
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Myrtales (Myrtales)
Family	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)	Myrtaceae
Genus	Chironax	Psidium
Species	Chironax melanocephalus	Psidium guajava

Conservation Status

Black-capped Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

Guava

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Black-capped Fruit Bat	Guava
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Black-capped Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Guava

Habitat

Inhabits deserts and xeric shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (40 countries), Asia (20 countries), Europe (7 countries), North America (12 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (13 countries), and South America (8 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.