coral-bean vs Pacific Flying Fox

Erythrina fusca compared with Pteropus tonganus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	coral-bean	Pacific Flying Fox
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)	Chiroptera (Bats)
Family	Fabaceae	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)
Genus	Erythrina	Pteropus (Flying Foxes)
Species	Erythrina fusca	Pteropus tonganus

Conservation Status

coral-bean

LC — Least Concern

Pacific Flying Fox

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	coral-bean	Pacific Flying Fox
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

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).

Pacific Flying Fox

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.