Peale’s Free-tailed Bat vs Tickclover

Nyctinomops aurispinosus compared with Desmodium incanum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Peale’s Free-tailed 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	Molossidae	Fabaceae
Genus	Nyctinomops	Desmodium
Species	Nyctinomops aurispinosus	Desmodium incanum

Conservation Status

Peale’s Free-tailed Bat

LC — Least Concern

Tickclover

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Peale’s Free-tailed Bat	Tickclover
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Peale’s Free-tailed Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia 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).