Great Stripe-faced Bat vs Yellow Dodder

Vampyrodes caraccioli compared with Cuscuta campestris

Key Differences

• Great Stripe-faced Bat is Least Concern while Yellow Dodder is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Great Stripe-faced Bat	Yellow 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	Vampyrodes	Cuscuta
Species	Vampyrodes caraccioli	Cuscuta campestris

Conservation Status

Great Stripe-faced Bat

LC — Least Concern

Yellow Dodder

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Great Stripe-faced Bat	Yellow Dodder
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Great Stripe-faced Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Yellow Dodder

Habitat

Inhabits montane grasslands and shrublands and deserts and xeric shrublands within the Palearctic biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (22 countries), Asia (22 countries), Europe (33 countries), North America (Canada), Oceania and the Pacific (Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Samoa), and South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile).