Garden Thyme vs Great Fruit-eating Bat

Thymus vulgaris compared with Artibeus lituratus

Key Differences

• Garden Thyme is Not Evaluated while Great Fruit-eating Bat is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Garden Thyme	Great Fruit-eating Bat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Lamiales (Lamiales)	Chiroptera (Bats)
Family	Lamiaceae	Phyllostomidae
Genus	Thymus	Artibeus
Species	Thymus vulgaris	Artibeus lituratus

Conservation Status

Garden Thyme

NE — Not Evaluated

Great Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Garden Thyme	Great Fruit-eating Bat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Garden Thyme

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Seychelles), Europe (18 countries), North America (Cuba, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia, New Zealand), and South America (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador).

Great Fruit-eating Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 2 countries:

🇨🇴 Colombia 🇪🇨 Ecuador