Baby’s Tears vs False Serotine Bat

Lindernia rotundifolia compared with Hesperoptenus doriae

Key Differences

• Baby’s Tears is Least Concern while False Serotine Bat is Data Deficient.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Baby’s Tears	False Serotine Bat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Lamiales (Lamiales)	Chiroptera (Bats)
Family	Linderniaceae	Vespertilionidae
Genus	Lindernia	Hesperoptenus
Species	Lindernia rotundifolia	Hesperoptenus doriae

Conservation Status

Baby’s Tears

LC — Least Concern

False Serotine Bat

DD — Data Deficient

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Baby’s Tears	False Serotine Bat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Baby’s Tears

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Brazil, Colombia, Mauritius, Mexico, and Taiwan.

False Serotine Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Baby’s Tears

The Baby’s Tears (Lindernia rotundifolia) is a species in the genus Lindernia. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.