Bergmans’s Fruit Bat vs Floating Fern

Scotonycteris bergmansi compared with Salvinia natans

Key Differences

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

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat	Floating Fern
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Tracheophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Salviniales (Salviniales)
Family	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)	Salviniaceae
Genus	Scotonycteris	Salvinia
Species	Scotonycteris bergmansi	Salvinia natans

Conservation Status

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

Floating Fern

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Floating Fern

Habitat

Typically found in moist, shaded forest floors and tropical canopies.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (4 countries), Europe (9 countries), North America (Honduras), 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.