Jaggery palm vs Lombok Flying Fox

Caryota urens compared with Pteropus lombocensis

Key Differences

• Jaggery palm is Least Concern while Lombok Flying Fox is Data Deficient.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Jaggery palm	Lombok Flying Fox
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Arecales (Arecales)	Chiroptera (Bats)
Family	Arecaceae	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)
Genus	Caryota	Pteropus (Flying Foxes)
Species	Caryota urens	Pteropus lombocensis

Conservation Status

Jaggery palm

LC — Least Concern

Lombok Flying Fox

DD — Data Deficient

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Jaggery palm	Lombok Flying Fox
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Jaggery palm

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests spanning the Indomalayan and Neotropic realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Guinea, Seychelles, South Africa), Asia (India, Maldives, Taiwan), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

Lombok Flying Fox

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.