Bergmans’s Fruit Bat vs cotton fireweed

Scotonycteris bergmansi compared with Senecio quadridentatus

Key Differences

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

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat	cotton fireweed
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Asterales (Daisies & Sunflowers)
Family	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)	Asteraceae (Daisy Family)
Genus	Scotonycteris	Senecio
Species	Scotonycteris bergmansi	Senecio quadridentatus

Conservation Status

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

cotton fireweed

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

cotton fireweed

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Belgium, France, Netherlands, Sweden, and United Kingdom.

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.