LaVal's Disk-winged Bat vs Tickclover

Thyroptera lavali compared with Desmodium incanum

Key Differences

LaVal's Disk-winged Bat is Data Deficient while Tickclover is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	LaVal's Disk-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	Thyropteridae	Fabaceae
Genus	Thyroptera	Desmodium
Species	Thyroptera lavali	Desmodium incanum

Conservation Status

LaVal's Disk-winged Bat

DD — Data Deficient

Tickclover

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	LaVal's Disk-winged Bat	Tickclover
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

LaVal's Disk-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).