Greater Sac-winged Bat vs Tickclover

Saccopteryx bilineata compared with Desmodium incanum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Greater Sac-winged Bat	Tickclover
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Emballonuridae	Fabaceae
Genus	Saccopteryx	Desmodium
Species	Saccopteryx bilineata	Desmodium incanum

Conservation Status

Greater Sac-winged Bat

LC — Least Concern

Tickclover

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Greater Sac-winged Bat	Tickclover
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Greater Sac-winged Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Tickclover

Habitat

Inhabits flooded grasslands and savannas within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (10 countries), Asia (Japan), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (12 countries), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).