vs Eastern Red Bat

Colacium sideropus compared with Lasiurus borealis

Key Differences

• is Not Evaluated while Eastern Red Bat is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank		Eastern Red Bat
Kingdom	Protozoa (простейшие)	Animalia (животные)
Phylum	Euglenozoa (Euglenozoa)	Chordata (хордовые)
Class	Euglenoidea (эвгленовые)	Mammalia (млекопитающие)
Order	Euglenida (эвглениды)	Chiroptera (рукокрылые)
Family	Euglenaceae	Vespertilionidae
Genus	Colacium	Lasiurus
Species	Colacium sideropus	Lasiurus borealis

Conservation Status

NE — Not Evaluated

Eastern Red Bat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute		Eastern Red Bat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Habitat

Native to Europe and South America, inhabiting ecosystems characteristic of the region.

Range

Distributed across Brazil and Sweden.

Eastern Red Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Found in United States.

Colacium sideropus is a microscopic euglenoid protist belonging to the family Euglenaceae, characterized by its sessile, colonial lifestyle attaching to aquatic invertebrates and zooplankton. Members of the genus Colacium are distinguished from free-swimming euglenoids by their stalked or clustered growth form, anchoring to the bodies of crustaceans such as copepods and cladocerans in freshwater environments. Like other photosynthetic euglenoids, Colacium possesses chloroplasts derived from secondary endosymbiosis with a green alga, allowing it to perform photosynthesis under favorable light conditions. The relationship with host invertebrates is generally considered epibiotic rather than parasitic, with the protist colonizing the external surfaces of its host without causing significant harm. Colacium sideropus occurs in freshwater lakes, ponds, and slow-moving streams where its zooplankton hosts are abundant. Its ecological role includes contributing to microbial food webs and nutrient cycling within freshwater ecosystems. As with many microscopic protists, its true distribution and abundance are difficult to assess from macroscopic surveys, and it is likely globally distributed wherever suitable hosts exist in freshwater habitats.