Cinnamon Dog-faced Bat vs Jointed Pricklypear

Cynomops abrasus compared with Opuntia aurantiaca

Key Differences

• Cinnamon Dog-faced Bat is Data Deficient while Jointed Pricklypear is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Cinnamon Dog-faced Bat	Jointed Pricklypear
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Molossidae	Cactaceae
Genus	Cynomops	Opuntia
Species	Cynomops abrasus	Opuntia aurantiaca

Conservation Status

Cinnamon Dog-faced Bat

DD — Data Deficient

Jointed Pricklypear

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Cinnamon Dog-faced Bat	Jointed Pricklypear
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Cinnamon Dog-faced Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia and Venezuela.

Jointed Pricklypear

Habitat

Inhabits flooded grasslands and savannas and deserts and xeric shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Australia, Eswatini, Jamaica, Namibia, and South Africa.

Cinnamon Dog-faced Bat

The Cinnamon Dog-faced Bat (Cynomops abrasus) is a species in the genus Cynomops. It is currently classified as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.