Dwarf Fruit-eating Bat vs Marsh fleabane

Artibeus gnomus compared with Pluchea carolinensis

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Dwarf Fruit-eating Bat	Marsh fleabane
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Asterales (Daisies & Sunflowers)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Asteraceae (Daisy Family)
Genus	Artibeus	Pluchea
Species	Artibeus gnomus	Pluchea carolinensis

Conservation Status

Dwarf Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Marsh fleabane

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Dwarf Fruit-eating Bat	Marsh fleabane
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.

Marsh fleabane

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Oceanian biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Taiwan), Europe (Spain), North America (5 countries), and Oceania and the Pacific (6 countries).