Bulmer's Fruit Bat vs melaleuca

Aproteles bulmerae compared with Melaleuca quinquenervia

Key Differences

• Bulmer's Fruit Bat is Critically Endangered while melaleuca is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bulmer's 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	Aproteles	Melaleuca
Species	Aproteles bulmerae	Melaleuca quinquenervia

Conservation Status

Bulmer's Fruit Bat

CR — Critically Endangered

melaleuca

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bulmer's Fruit Bat	melaleuca
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bulmer's 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).

Bulmer's Fruit Bat

The Bulmer's Fruit Bat (Aproteles bulmerae) is a species in the genus Aproteles. It is currently classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.