Endangered
Nicobar flying fox
Pteropus faunulus
Nicobar flying fox is a bat in the family Pteropodidae (order Chiroptera) — Pteropus faunulus, recorded as Endangered.
The bat
This is a named wild mammal with a photograph and a threat category on the public record.
Range and habitat
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss due to forest clearing.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Nicobar flying fox is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Nicobar flying fox — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q1761363. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
