Baby’s Tears vs Madagascan fruit bat

Lindernia rotundifolia compared with Eidolon dupreanum

Key Differences

• Baby’s Tears is Least Concern while Madagascan fruit bat is Vulnerable.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Baby’s Tears	Madagascan fruit bat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Lamiales (Lamiales)	Chiroptera (Bats)
Family	Linderniaceae	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)
Genus	Lindernia	Eidolon
Species	Lindernia rotundifolia	Eidolon dupreanum

Conservation Status

Baby’s Tears

LC — Least Concern

Madagascan fruit bat

VU — Vulnerable

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Baby’s Tears	Madagascan fruit 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.

Madagascan fruit 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.