Antillean Fruit-eating Bat vs Moon cactus

Brachyphylla cavernarum compared with Harrisia martinii

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Antillean Fruit-eating Bat	Moon cactus
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (planta)
Phylum	Chordata (cordados)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (mamíferos)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Cactaceae
Genus	Brachyphylla	Harrisia
Species	Brachyphylla cavernarum	Harrisia martinii

Conservation Status

Antillean Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Moon cactus

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Antillean Fruit-eating Bat	Moon cactus
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Antillean Fruit-eating Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Moon cactus

Habitat

Inhabits flooded grasslands and savannas and deserts and xeric shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Australia, Namibia, South Africa, and United States.

Antillean Fruit-eating Bat

The Antillean Fruit-eating Bat (Brachyphylla cavernarum) is a species in the genus Brachyphylla. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.