Goa-bean vs Hairy Fruit-eating Bat

Psophocarpus tetragonolobus compared with Artibeus hirsutus

Key Differences

• Goa-bean is Data Deficient while Hairy Fruit-eating Bat is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Goa-bean	Hairy Fruit-eating Bat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)	Chiroptera (Bats)
Family	Fabaceae	Phyllostomidae
Genus	Psophocarpus	Artibeus
Species	Psophocarpus tetragonolobus	Artibeus hirsutus

Conservation Status

Goa-bean

DD — Data Deficient

Hairy Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Goa-bean	Hairy Fruit-eating Bat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Goa-bean

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and tropical and subtropical coniferous forests within the Indomalayan biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Distributed across Brazil, Colombia, Philippines, and Taiwan.

Hairy Fruit-eating Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.