Large Fruit-eating Bat vs Sea Lettuce

Artibeus amplus compared with Ulva lactuca

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Large Fruit-eating Bat	Sea Lettuce
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Chlorophyta (Chlorophyta)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Ulvophyceae (Ulvophyceae)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Ulvales (Ulvales)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Ulvaceae
Genus	Artibeus	Ulva
Species	Artibeus amplus	Ulva lactuca

Conservation Status

Large Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Sea Lettuce

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Large Fruit-eating Bat	Sea Lettuce
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.

Sea Lettuce

Habitat

Native to Asia and Europe and North America, inhabiting ecosystems characteristic of the region.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Lebanon, Taiwan, Turkey), Europe (4 countries), North America (Mexico), Oceania and the Pacific (New Zealand), and South America (Brazil).