Large Fruit-eating Bat vs Prickly Coontail

Artibeus amplus compared with Ceratophyllum echinatum

Key Differences

• Large Fruit-eating Bat is Least Concern while Prickly Coontail is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Large Fruit-eating Bat	Prickly Coontail
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Ceratophyllales (Ceratophyllales)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Ceratophyllaceae
Genus	Artibeus	Ceratophyllum
Species	Artibeus amplus	Ceratophyllum echinatum

Conservation Status

Large Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Prickly Coontail

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Large Fruit-eating Bat	Prickly Coontail
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Large Fruit-eating Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia and Venezuela.

Prickly Coontail

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Canada and United States.