Gallagher's Free-tailed Bat vs Jointed Pricklypear

Chaerephon gallagheri compared with Opuntia aurantiaca

Key Differences

• Gallagher's Free-tailed Bat is Data Deficient while Jointed Pricklypear is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Gallagher's Free-tailed Bat	Jointed Pricklypear
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Molossidae	Cactaceae
Genus	Chaerephon	Opuntia
Species	Chaerephon gallagheri	Opuntia aurantiaca

Conservation Status

Gallagher's Free-tailed Bat

DD — Data Deficient

Jointed Pricklypear

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Gallagher's Free-tailed Bat	Jointed Pricklypear
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Gallagher's Free-tailed Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Jointed Pricklypear

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Australia, Eswatini, Jamaica, Namibia, and South Africa.