vs Great Fruit-eating Bat

Exobasidium splendidum compared with Artibeus lituratus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank		Great Fruit-eating Bat
Kingdom	Fungi (เห็ดรา)	Animalia (สัตว์)
Phylum	Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)	Chordata (สัตว์มีแกนสันหลัง)
Class	Exobasidiomycetes (Exobasidiomycetes)	Mammalia (สัตว์เลี้ยงลูกด้วยน้ำนม)
Order	Exobasidiales (Exobasidiales)	Chiroptera (ค้างคาว)
Family	Exobasidiaceae	Phyllostomidae
Genus	Exobasidium	Artibeus
Species	Exobasidium splendidum	Artibeus lituratus

Conservation Status

LC — Least Concern

Great Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute		Great Fruit-eating Bat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Habitat

Native to Europe, inhabiting ecosystems characteristic of the region.

Range

Distributed across Belgium, Norway, and Sweden.

Great Fruit-eating Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Exobasidium splendidum is a parasitic basidiomycete fungus that forms galls and hypertrophied growths on the leaves and stems of host plants in the heath family. It inhabits boreal and montane habitats where Ericaceae shrubs such as Arctostaphylos grow. This parasitic fungus deforms host plant tissue to extract nutrients during its reproductive phase.