Large Fruit-eating Bat vs Serpentine Sunflower

Artibeus amplus compared with Helianthus exilis

Key Differences

• Large Fruit-eating Bat is Least Concern while Serpentine Sunflower is Near Threatened.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Large Fruit-eating Bat	Serpentine Sunflower
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Asterales (Daisies & Sunflowers)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Asteraceae (Daisy Family)
Genus	Artibeus	Helianthus (Sunflowers)
Species	Artibeus amplus	Helianthus exilis

Conservation Status

Large Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Serpentine Sunflower

NT — Near Threatened

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Large Fruit-eating Bat	Serpentine Sunflower
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.

Serpentine Sunflower

Habitat

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