Great Fruit-eating Bat vs Natal plum

Artibeus lituratus compared with Carissa macrocarpa

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Great Fruit-eating Bat	Natal plum
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Gentianales (Gentianales)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Apocynaceae
Genus	Artibeus	Carissa
Species	Artibeus lituratus	Carissa macrocarpa

Conservation Status

Great Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Natal plum

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Great Fruit-eating Bat	Natal 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.

Natal plum

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (South Africa), Asia (India, Taiwan), North America (United States), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).