Chapin's Free-tailed Bat vs Fish-bone Cassia

Chaerephon chapini compared with Chamaecrista mimosoides

Taxonomic Classification

Rank Chapin's Free-tailed 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 Molossidae Fabaceae
Genus Chaerephon Chamaecrista
Species Chaerephon chapini Chamaecrista mimosoides

Conservation Status

Chapin's Free-tailed Bat

LC — Least Concern

Fish-bone Cassia

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute Chapin's Free-tailed Bat Fish-bone Cassia
Diet
Average Lifespan
Average Length
Average Weight

Habitat & Geographic Range

Chapin's Free-tailed 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).

Chapin's Free-tailed Bat

The Chapin's Free-tailed Bat (Chaerephon chapini) is a species in the genus Chaerephon. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Fish-bone Cassia

No description available.

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