chiropteran vs microbat

chiropteran and microbat both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chiropteran	Yes	No	No	No
microbat	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, microbat is a hyponym of chiropteran; that is, microbat is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than chiropteran:

chiropteran: nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
microbat: typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects; worldwide in distribution

Other hyponyms of chiropteran include fruit bat, megabat, carnivorous bat.

chiropteran (noun)	microbat (noun)
nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate	typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects; worldwide in distribution