Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat vs Hooked Veilwort

Artibeus cinereus compared with Metzgeria leptoneura

Key Differences

• Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat is Least Concern while Hooked Veilwort is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat	Hooked Veilwort
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Marchantiophyta (liverwort)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Jungermanniopsida (Jungermanniopsida)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Metzgeriales (Metzgeriales)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Metzgeriaceae
Genus	Artibeus	Metzgeria
Species	Artibeus cinereus	Metzgeria leptoneura

Conservation Status

Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat

LC — Least Concern

Hooked Veilwort

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat	Hooked Veilwort
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Found in Venezuela.

Hooked Veilwort

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Taiwan), Europe (Norway, Portugal, Sweden), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).