Cuckoo-Bread vs Peale’s Free-tailed Bat

Oxalis acetosella compared with Nyctinomops aurispinosus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Cuckoo-Bread	Peale’s Free-tailed Bat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Oxalidales (Oxalidales)	Chiroptera (Bats)
Family	Oxalidaceae	Molossidae
Genus	Oxalis	Nyctinomops
Species	Oxalis acetosella	Nyctinomops aurispinosus

Conservation Status

Cuckoo-Bread

LC — Least Concern

Peale’s Free-tailed Bat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Cuckoo-Bread	Peale’s Free-tailed Bat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Cuckoo-Bread

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Range

Found across Europe (6 countries) and North America (United States).

Peale’s Free-tailed Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia and Venezuela.