Bergmans’s Fruit Bat vs Fourspike heliotrope

Scotonycteris bergmansi compared with Euploca procumbens

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat	Fourspike heliotrope
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Boraginales (Boraginales)
Family	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)	Heliotropiaceae
Genus	Scotonycteris	Euploca
Species	Scotonycteris bergmansi	Euploca procumbens

Conservation Status

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

Fourspike heliotrope

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Fourspike heliotrope

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Australasia biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Brazil, Cuba, Micronesia, Solomon Islands, and United States.

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.