Hairy-legged Vampire Bat vs

Diphylla ecaudata compared with Postia lowei

Key Differences

• Hairy-legged Vampire Bat is Least Concern while is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Hairy-legged Vampire Bat
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Fungi (Fungi)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Agaricomycetes (Mushrooms)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Polyporales (Polyporales)
Family	Phyllostomidae	Dacryobolaceae
Genus	Diphylla	Postia
Species	Diphylla ecaudata	Postia lowei

Conservation Status

Hairy-legged Vampire Bat

LC — Least Concern

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Hairy-legged Vampire Bat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Hairy-legged Vampire Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Habitat

Typically found in forest floors, decomposing wood, and soil ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Norway, Sweden, and Taiwan.

Postia lowei is a soft, white to cream-colored bracket fungus forming annual, shelf-like fruiting bodies on decaying conifer wood. It inhabits boreal and montane coniferous forests, growing on dead fallen logs and stumps. This brown-rot saprotrophic fungus decomposes the cellulose of conifer wood, leaving characteristic brown cubical rot.