Bulmer's Fruit Bat vs coral-bean

Aproteles bulmerae compared with Erythrina fusca

Key Differences

• Bulmer's Fruit Bat is Critically Endangered while coral-bean is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bulmer's Fruit Bat	coral-bean
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	Aproteles	Erythrina
Species	Aproteles bulmerae	Erythrina fusca

Conservation Status

Bulmer's Fruit Bat

CR — Critically Endangered

coral-bean

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bulmer's Fruit Bat	coral-bean
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bulmer's Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

coral-bean

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Oceanian biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Sao Tome and Principe), Oceania and the Pacific (Tonga), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

Bulmer's Fruit Bat

The Bulmer's Fruit Bat (Aproteles bulmerae) is a species in the genus Aproteles. It is currently classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.