Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat vs Greater dodder

Artibeus cinereus compared with Cuscuta europaea

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat	Greater dodder
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Solanales (Solanales)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Convolvulaceae
Genus	Artibeus	Cuscuta
Species	Artibeus cinereus	Cuscuta europaea

Conservation Status

Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Greater dodder

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat	Greater dodder
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Found in Venezuela.

Greater dodder

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Indomalayan biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Bhutan, Turkey), Europe (5 countries), and North America (United States).