Bergmans’s Fruit Bat vs Chickenweed

Scotonycteris bergmansi compared with Portulaca quadrifida

Key Differences

• Bergmans’s Fruit Bat is Least Concern while Chickenweed is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat	Chickenweed
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)	Portulacaceae
Genus	Scotonycteris	Portulaca
Species	Scotonycteris bergmansi	Portulaca quadrifida

Conservation Status

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

Chickenweed

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat	Chickenweed
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Chickenweed

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (4 countries), Asia (4 countries), North America (Cuba), and Oceania and the Pacific (Marshall Islands).

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.

Chickenweed

The Chickenweed (Portulaca quadrifida) is a species in the genus Portulaca. Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.