Bergmans’s Fruit Bat vs false cleavers

Scotonycteris bergmansi compared with Galium spurium

Key Differences

• Bergmans’s Fruit Bat is Least Concern while false cleavers is Extinct.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat	false cleavers
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Gentianales (Gentianales)
Family	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)	Rubiaceae
Genus	Scotonycteris	Galium
Species	Scotonycteris bergmansi	Galium spurium

Conservation Status

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

false cleavers

EX — Extinct

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

false cleavers

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Japan, Taiwan), Europe (14 countries), North America (Canada, Mexico), and Oceania and the Pacific (Australia).

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.