Bulmer's Fruit Bat vs Fish-bone Cassia

Aproteles bulmerae compared with Chamaecrista mimosoides

Key Differences

• Bulmer's Fruit Bat is Critically Endangered while Fish-bone Cassia is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bulmer's 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	Aproteles	Chamaecrista
Species	Aproteles bulmerae	Chamaecrista mimosoides

Conservation Status

Bulmer's Fruit Bat

CR — Critically Endangered

Fish-bone Cassia

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bulmer's Fruit Bat	Fish-bone Cassia
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bulmer's 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).

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.