Ontong Java Flying Fox vs rough corn bedstraw, corn cleavers

Pteropus howensis compared with Galium tricornutum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank Ontong Java Flying Fox rough corn bedstraw, corn cleavers
Kingdom Animalia (Animals) Plantae (Plants)
Phylum Chordata (Chordates) Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class Mammalia (Mammals) Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order Chiroptera (Bats) Gentianales (Gentianales)
Family Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats) Rubiaceae
Genus Pteropus (Flying Foxes) Galium
Species Pteropus howensis Galium tricornutum

Conservation Status

Ontong Java Flying Fox

CR — Critically Endangered

rough corn bedstraw, corn cleavers

CR — Critically Endangered

Physical Characteristics

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Habitat & Geographic Range

Ontong Java Flying Fox

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

rough corn bedstraw, corn cleavers

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and temperate broadleaf and mixed forests, among 12 distinct biome types. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Japan, Qatar), Europe (18 countries), North America (Canada, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia), and South America (Brazil, Chile). Currently classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.

Ontong Java Flying Fox

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rough corn bedstraw, corn cleavers

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