fat duckweed vs Guam Flying Fox

Lemna gibba compared with Pteropus tokudae

Key Differences

• fat duckweed is Least Concern while Guam Flying Fox is Extinct.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	fat duckweed	Guam Flying Fox
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Alismatales (Alismatales)	Chiroptera (Bats)
Family	Araceae	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)
Genus	Lemna	Pteropus (Flying Foxes)
Species	Lemna gibba	Pteropus tokudae

Conservation Status

fat duckweed

LC — Least Concern

Guam Flying Fox

EX — Extinct

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	fat duckweed	Guam Flying Fox
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

fat duckweed

Habitat

Inhabits deserts and xeric shrublands and flooded grasslands and savannas within the Palearctic biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Egypt), Asia (Japan), Europe (6 countries), North America (Canada), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

Guam Flying Fox

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.