Black-capped Fruit Bat vs melaleuca

Chironax melanocephalus compared with Melaleuca quinquenervia

Taxonomic Classification

Rank Black-capped Fruit Bat melaleuca
Kingdom Animalia (Animals) Plantae (plantas)
Phylum Chordata (cordados) Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class Mammalia (mamíferos) Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order Chiroptera (morcego) Myrtales (Myrtales)
Family Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats) Myrtaceae
Genus Chironax Melaleuca
Species Chironax melanocephalus Melaleuca quinquenervia

Conservation Status

Black-capped Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

melaleuca

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute Black-capped Fruit Bat melaleuca
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Habitat & Geographic Range

Black-capped Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

melaleuca

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (8 countries), Asia (India, Malaysia, Vietnam), Europe (5 countries), North America (18 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (4 countries), and South America (4 countries).

Black-capped Fruit Bat

The Black-capped Fruit Bat (Chironax melanocephalus) is a species in the genus Chironax. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

melaleuca

No description available.

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