Bulmer's Fruit Bat vs Tickclover

Aproteles bulmerae compared with Desmodium incanum

Key Differences

• Bulmer's Fruit Bat is Critically Endangered while Tickclover is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bulmer's Fruit Bat	Tickclover
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	Desmodium
Species	Aproteles bulmerae	Desmodium incanum

Conservation Status

Bulmer's Fruit Bat

CR — Critically Endangered

Tickclover

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bulmer's Fruit Bat	Tickclover
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bulmer's Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Tickclover

Habitat

Inhabits flooded grasslands and savannas within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (10 countries), Asia (Japan), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (12 countries), 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.