#0358 · 🦊 mammals

Black Flying-fox

Pteropus alecto

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © John Sullivan · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Janine Duffy, Koala Clancy Foundation · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Janine Duffy, Koala Clancy Foundation · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Ged Tranter · CC BY 4.0
5. © Rolf Lawrenz · CC BY 4.0
6. © Tan Kok Hui · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Victor W Fazio III · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Chris Nash · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The black flying fox or black fruit bat ( Pteropus alecto ) is a bat in the family Pteropodidae. It is among the largest bats in the world, but is considerably smaller than the largest species in its genus, Pteropus . The black flying fox is native to Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia. It is not a threatened species.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,002iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
4,002 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1837 (189 years ago).