Lesser Dog-like Bat vs River sheoak

Peropteryx macrotis compared with Casuarina cunninghamiana

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Lesser Dog-like Bat	River sheoak
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Fagales (Beeches & Oaks)
Family	Emballonuridae	Casuarinaceae
Genus	Peropteryx	Casuarina
Species	Peropteryx macrotis	Casuarina cunninghamiana

Conservation Status

Lesser Dog-like Bat

LC — Least Concern

River sheoak

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Lesser Dog-like Bat	River sheoak
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Lesser Dog-like Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

River sheoak

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, montane grasslands and shrublands, and deserts and xeric shrublands, among 5 distinct biome types spanning the Australasia and Afrotropic and Indomalayan realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (11 countries), Asia (8 countries), Europe (5 countries), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Vanuatu), and South America (4 countries).

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 2 countries:

🇨🇴 Colombia 🇻🇪 Venezuela