Black-capped Fruit Bat vs Hairy indigo

Chironax melanocephalus compared with Indigofera hirsuta

Key Differences

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

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Black-capped Fruit Bat	Hairy indigo
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	Indigofera
Species	Chironax melanocephalus	Indigofera hirsuta

Conservation Status

Black-capped Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

Hairy indigo

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Black-capped Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Hairy indigo

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Comoros, Guinea, Madagascar), Asia (Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan), North America (7 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Nauru, Papua New Guinea), and South America (Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay).

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.