Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Chiroptera > Pteropodidae > Balionycteris > Balionycteris maculataBalionycteris maculata (spotted-winged fruit bat)Synonyms: Balionycteris maculata maculata; Cynopterus maculatus The spotted-winged fruit bat, (Balionycteris maculata) is the smallest megabat in the world, and the only species in the genus Balionycteris. It inhabits forests in Indonesia and Malaysia. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 9.99 EDGE Score: 2.4 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 13.4 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 3.5 grams |  | | Diet [3] | Herbivore | | Forages - Arboreal [4] | 100 % | | | Female Maturity [5] | 2 years | | Male Maturity [5] | 2 years | | | Gestation [2] | 4 months 15 days | | Litter Size [2] | 1 | | Litters / Year [5] | 2 | | Maximum Longevity [2] | 4 years | | Nocturnal [3] | Yes | | Snout to Vent Length [5] | 2.756 inches (7 cm) | | Wing Span [1] | 11 inches (.28 m) | | | Habitat Substrate [3] | Arboreal |
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| Name |
Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Borneo lowland rain forests |
Indonesia, Malaysia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Borneo montane rain forests |
Indonesia, Malaysia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Borneo peat swamp forests |
Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Indochina mangroves |
Thailand, Cambodia, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Mangroves |
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Kinabalu montane alpine meadows |
Malaysia |
Indo-Malayan |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests |
Malaysia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests |
Malaysia, Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Peninsular Malaysian rain forests |
Indonesia, Malaysia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southwest Borneo freshwater swamp forests |
Indonesia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sumatran freshwater swamp forests |
Indonesia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sumatran peat swamp forests |
Indonesia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sunda Shelf mangroves |
Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei |
Indo-Malayan |
Mangroves |
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Sundaland heath forests |
Indonesia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests |
Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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| Name |
IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Bako National Park |
II |
9035 |
Sarawak, Malaysia |
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Betung Kerihun National Park |
II |
1945086 |
Kalimantan, Indonesia |
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Bukit Kutu Wildlife Reserve |
IV |
4602 |
Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia |
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Bukit Tigah Puluh National Park |
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360578 |
Sumatra, Indonesia |
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Hulu Langat Forest Reserve/Sungai Tekali Virgin Jungle Reserve |
Ia |
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Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia |
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Khao Banthat Wildlife Sanctuary |
IV |
309428 |
Thailand |
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Krau Wildlife Reserve |
IV |
149823 |
Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia |
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Pasoh Virgin Jungle Reserve |
Ia |
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Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia |
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Sungai Lalang Forest Reserve Virgin Jungle Reserve |
Ia |
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Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia |
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Tabin Wildlife Reserve |
IV |
275051 |
Sabah, Malaysia |
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Taman Negara National Park |
II |
1122273 |
Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia |
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Ulu Temburong National Park |
II |
123279 |
Brunei Darussalam |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Indo-Burma |
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
No |
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Sundaland |
Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Habitat structure, wing morphology, and the vertical stratification of Malaysian fruit bats (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae), Robert Hodgkison, Sharon T. Balding, Akbar Zubaid and Thomas H. Kunz, Journal of Tropical Ecology (2004) 20:667673 ♦ 2Balionycteris maculata, Robert Hodgkison and Thomas H. Kunz, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 793, pp. 1-3 (2006) ♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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