Dwarf Fruit-eating Bat vs Monkey Apple

Artibeus gnomus compared with Annona glabra

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Dwarf Fruit-eating Bat	Monkey Apple
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Magnoliales (Magnoliales)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Annonaceae
Genus	Artibeus	Annona
Species	Artibeus gnomus	Annona glabra

Conservation Status

Dwarf Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Monkey Apple

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Dwarf Fruit-eating Bat	Monkey Apple
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.

Monkey Apple

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and deserts and xeric shrublands spanning the Australasia and Indomalayan realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Guinea, Seychelles), Asia (6 countries), North America (Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras), Oceania and the Pacific (6 countries), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).