Eastern Cordilleran Nectar Bat vs Sieva bean

Lonchophylla orienticollina compared with Phaseolus lunatus

Key Differences

• Eastern Cordilleran Nectar Bat is Data Deficient while Sieva bean is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Eastern Cordilleran Nectar Bat	Sieva bean
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Fabaceae
Genus	Lonchophylla	Phaseolus
Species	Lonchophylla orienticollina	Phaseolus lunatus

Conservation Status

Eastern Cordilleran Nectar Bat

DD — Data Deficient

Sieva bean

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Eastern Cordilleran Nectar Bat	Sieva bean
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Eastern Cordilleran Nectar Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Sieva bean

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, flooded grasslands and savannas, and montane grasslands and shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (20 countries), Asia (Philippines, Taiwan), Europe (Spain), North America (5 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (7 countries), and South America (5 countries).

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 2 countries:

🇨🇴 Colombia 🇻🇪 Venezuela