Antillean Fruit-eating Bat vs Giant dodder

Brachyphylla cavernarum compared with Cuscuta reflexa

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Antillean Fruit-eating Bat	Giant dodder
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Solanales (Solanales)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Convolvulaceae
Genus	Brachyphylla	Cuscuta
Species	Brachyphylla cavernarum	Cuscuta reflexa

Conservation Status

Antillean Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Giant dodder

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Antillean Fruit-eating Bat	Giant dodder
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Antillean Fruit-eating Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Giant dodder

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Indomalayan biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Bhutan, Mauritius, and United States.

Antillean Fruit-eating Bat

The Antillean Fruit-eating Bat (Brachyphylla cavernarum) is a species in the genus Brachyphylla. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.