Endangered
Bonin flying fox
Pteropus pselaphon
Bonin flying fox is a bat in the family Pteropodidae (order Chiroptera) — Pteropus pselaphon, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Their fur is predominantly black and brown, with silver-tipped hairs interspersed. Their uropatagium is almost completely furred across the dorsal side, but about half furred on its ventral side. The fur along the body is smooth but is frizzled around the head, neck, and shoulders.
From their nose to the tip of the uropatagium, they are 254 mm (10.0 in) long.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Bonin Islands of Japan, among them Chichijima and Hahajima, and the Iwo Islands, among them North Iwo Jima, Iwo Jima, and South Iwo Jima. The islands where they are found have many steep hills The Bonin flying fox, also known as Bonin fruit bat, is a flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to four islands (Chichijima, Hahajima, North Iwo Jima, and South Iwo Jima) of the Bonin Islands group, Japan.
The population of bats Chichijima Island was estimated at 150 individuals in 1997, but by 2002, it was estimated at only 65-80 individuals.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
This species is herbivorous. Other components of their diet include soursop fruit, sugar-apples, banana fruits, leaves, and flowers, traveller's palm flowers, giant white bird of paradise flowers, pitahaya fruit, Indian-almond fruit, Java apple fruit and flowers, guava fruit, weeping paperbark flowers, Albany bottlebrush flowers, litchi fruit, key lime fruits, Meyer lemons, pomelos, grapefruit, amanatsu fruit, sweet oranges, tangerines, mangos, figs, and Chinese mulberries.
When foraging, they move slowly through the trees. This species probably has the ability to breed year-round.
In crisis
It is threatened by habitat loss. In 2000, the classification was revised to critically endangered. In 2017, they were downlisted to endangered.
This law made it illegal to capture or hunt them. Possible reasons for their decline include entanglement in agricultural nets and depredation by feral cats.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Bonin 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 Bonin flying fox, Wikidata item Q557468. 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.
