Great Fruit-eating Bat vs Pomelo

Artibeus lituratus compared with Citrus maxima

Key Differences

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

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Great Fruit-eating Bat	Pomelo
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Sapindales (Sapindales)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Rutaceae
Genus	Artibeus	Citrus
Species	Artibeus lituratus	Citrus maxima

Conservation Status

Great Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Pomelo

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Great Fruit-eating Bat	Pomelo
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.

Pomelo

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (5 countries), Asia (Laos, Maldives, Taiwan), Europe (Sweden), and South America (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador).

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 2 countries:

🇨🇴 Colombia 🇪🇨 Ecuador