Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat vs Seagrape

Cynopterus sphinx compared with Coccoloba uvifera

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat	Seagrape
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)	Polygonaceae
Genus	Cynopterus	Coccoloba
Species	Cynopterus sphinx	Coccoloba uvifera

Conservation Status

Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

Seagrape

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat	Seagrape
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Found in Taiwan.

Seagrape

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Indomalayan biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Seychelles), Asia (4 countries), North America (Cuba, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (Marshall Islands), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).