Gray Short-tailed Bat vs hooked-pepperwort

Carollia subrufa compared with Marsilea vestita

Key Differences

• Gray Short-tailed Bat is Least Concern while hooked-pepperwort is Near Threatened.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Gray Short-tailed Bat	hooked-pepperwort
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Tracheophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Salviniales (Salviniales)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Marsileaceae
Genus	Carollia	Marsilea
Species	Carollia subrufa	Marsilea vestita

Conservation Status

Gray Short-tailed Bat

LC — Least Concern

hooked-pepperwort

NT — Near Threatened

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Gray Short-tailed Bat	hooked-pepperwort
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Gray Short-tailed Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

hooked-pepperwort

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, among 5 distinct biome types within the Neotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Canada and Cuba. Listed as Near Threatened, this species requires ongoing monitoring to prevent population decline.