Peters's Disk-winged Bat vs Sprawling signalgrass

Thyroptera discifera compared with Urochloa reptans

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Peters's Disk-winged Bat	Sprawling signalgrass
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Poales (Grasses)
Family	Thyropteridae	Poaceae (Grass Family)
Genus	Thyroptera	Urochloa
Species	Thyroptera discifera	Urochloa reptans

Conservation Status

Peters's Disk-winged Bat

LC — Least Concern

Sprawling signalgrass

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Peters's Disk-winged Bat	Sprawling signalgrass
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Peters's Disk-winged Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Sprawling signalgrass

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, montane grasslands and shrublands, and deserts and xeric shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (4 countries), Asia (Taiwan, Timor-Leste), North America (Costa Rica, Cuba, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (4 countries), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).