Great Fruit-eating Bat vs Java plum

Artibeus lituratus compared with Syzygium cumini

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Great Fruit-eating Bat	Java plum
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Myrtales (Myrtales)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Myrtaceae
Genus	Artibeus	Syzygium
Species	Artibeus lituratus	Syzygium cumini

Conservation Status

Great Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Java plum

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Great Fruit-eating Bat	Java plum
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Great Fruit-eating Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Java plum

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, and montane grasslands and shrublands, among 7 distinct biome types. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (13 countries), Asia (8 countries), North America (16 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (6 countries), and South America (7 countries).

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 2 countries:

🇨🇴 Colombia 🇻🇪 Venezuela