Davison’s Mastiff Bat vs lime prickly-ash

Promops davisoni compared with Zanthoxylum fagara

Key Differences

• Davison’s Mastiff Bat is Data Deficient while lime prickly-ash is Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Davison’s Mastiff Bat	lime prickly-ash
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Sapindales (Sapindales)
Family	Molossidae	Rutaceae
Genus	Promops	Zanthoxylum
Species	Promops davisoni	Zanthoxylum fagara

Conservation Status

Davison’s Mastiff Bat

DD — Data Deficient

lime prickly-ash

EN — Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Davison’s Mastiff Bat	lime prickly-ash
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Davison’s Mastiff Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Found in Ecuador.

lime prickly-ash

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, among 5 distinct biome types within the Neotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba. Currently classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.