Arrowleaf elephant's ear vs Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

Xanthosoma sagittifolium compared with Scotonycteris bergmansi

Key Differences

• Arrowleaf elephant's ear is Not Evaluated while Bergmans’s Fruit Bat is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Arrowleaf elephant's ear	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Alismatales (Alismatales)	Chiroptera (Bats)
Family	Araceae	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)
Genus	Xanthosoma	Scotonycteris
Species	Xanthosoma sagittifolium	Scotonycteris bergmansi

Conservation Status

Arrowleaf elephant's ear

NE — Not Evaluated

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Arrowleaf elephant's ear	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Arrowleaf elephant's ear

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and mangrove forests and coastal wetlands spanning the Indomalayan and Neotropic realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (9 countries), Asia (4 countries), North America (9 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (7 countries), and South America (Colombia).

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Arrowleaf elephant's ear

The Arrowleaf elephant's ear, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, is a species. Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and mangrove forests and coastal wetlands spanning the Indomalayan and Neotropic realms.

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

The Bergmans’s Fruit Bat (Scotonycteris bergmansi) is a species in the genus Scotonycteris. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.