Bulmer's Fruit Bat vs five-leaf crotalaria

Aproteles bulmerae compared with Crotalaria quinquefolia

Key Differences

• Bulmer's Fruit Bat is Critically Endangered while five-leaf crotalaria is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bulmer's Fruit Bat	five-leaf crotalaria
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	Crotalaria
Species	Aproteles bulmerae	Crotalaria quinquefolia

Conservation Status

Bulmer's Fruit Bat

CR — Critically Endangered

five-leaf crotalaria

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bulmer's Fruit Bat	five-leaf crotalaria
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bulmer's Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

five-leaf crotalaria

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Australasia biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Japan, Singapore), Oceania and the Pacific (5 countries), and South America (Guyana).

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.