Endangered
Caroline flying fox
Pteropus molossinus
The Caroline flying fox or Pohnpei flying fox is a megabat in the genus Pteropus, endemic to Micronesia.
Appearance
Its overall fur color is brown, though the back and rump have a reddish tint.
It is the smallest member of the flying fox genus, with the average adult weighing just over 100 g (3.5 oz).
Its forearm length ranges from 90.2–100.0 mm (3.55–3.94 in).
Range and habitat
The Caroline flying fox or Pohnpei flying fox is a megabat in the genus Pteropus, endemic to Micronesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss due to expanding plantations.
The Caroline flying-fox is native to the Caroline Islands.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
The Caroline flying fox is threatened by habitat loss, hunting pressures, and the small size of its remaining population. As of 2020, it is considered an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Caroline 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 Caroline flying fox, Wikidata item Q1767035. 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.
