Dwarf Dog-faced Bat vs Fish-bone Cassia

Molossops temminckii compared with Chamaecrista mimosoides

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Dwarf Dog-faced Bat	Fish-bone Cassia
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Molossidae	Fabaceae
Genus	Molossops	Chamaecrista
Species	Molossops temminckii	Chamaecrista mimosoides

Conservation Status

Dwarf Dog-faced Bat

LC — Least Concern

Fish-bone Cassia

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Dwarf Dog-faced Bat	Fish-bone Cassia
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Dwarf Dog-faced Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Fish-bone Cassia

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and montane grasslands and shrublands spanning the Australasia and Indomalayan and Oceanian realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Comoros, Guinea, Madagascar), Asia (4 countries), and Oceania and the Pacific (6 countries).