Cricket-Bat Willow vs Lesser Naked Bat

Salix alba compared with Cheiromeles parvidens

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Cricket-Bat Willow	Lesser Naked Bat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Malpighiales (Malpighiales)	Chiroptera (Bats)
Family	Salicaceae	Molossidae
Genus	Salix	Cheiromeles
Species	Salix alba	Cheiromeles parvidens

Conservation Status

Cricket-Bat Willow

LC — Least Concern

Lesser Naked Bat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Cricket-Bat Willow	Lesser Naked Bat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Cricket-Bat Willow

Habitat

Inhabits deserts and xeric shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Eswatini, Libya), Asia (Yemen), Europe (10 countries), North America (Canada, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia), and South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile).

Lesser Naked Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.