🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Black-eared flying fox live?

Pteropus melanotus has 287 records in 5 countries and territories, from 1852 to 2026. Most records come from Christmas Island.

AnimaliaChordataMammaliaChiropteraPteropodidaePteropus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: March. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Christmas Island 254
Indonesia 19
India 10
Australia 2
Philippines 2

Related animals

Others in the family Pteropodidae.

Southern Blossom Bat
Southern Blossom Bat
4,515 records
Straw-coloured fruit bat
3,718 records
Gambian Epauletted Fruit Bat
3,514 records
Indian Flying Fox
3,479 records
Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat
1,821 records
Ethiopian Epauletted Fruit Bat
1,582 records
Seychelles Flying Fox
828 records
Mauritian flying fox
629 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.