Dwarf Fruit-eating Bat vs Ferny Azolla

Artibeus gnomus compared with Azolla pinnata

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Dwarf Fruit-eating Bat	Ferny Azolla
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Tracheophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Salviniales (Salviniales)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Salviniaceae
Genus	Artibeus	Azolla
Species	Artibeus gnomus	Azolla pinnata

Conservation Status

Dwarf Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Ferny Azolla

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Dwarf Fruit-eating Bat	Ferny Azolla
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Dwarf Fruit-eating Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Ferny Azolla

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including deserts and xeric shrublands, tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, and flooded grasslands and savannas spanning the Palearctic and Oceanian realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (4 countries), Asia (Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan), North America (Mexico, United States), and Oceania and the Pacific (Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Tuvalu).