Bergmans’s Fruit Bat vs Mesquite

Scotonycteris bergmansi compared with Prosopis juliflora

Key Differences

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

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat	Mesquite
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)	Fabaceae
Genus	Scotonycteris	Prosopis
Species	Scotonycteris bergmansi	Prosopis juliflora

Conservation Status

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

Mesquite

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Mesquite

Habitat

Inhabits flooded grasslands and savannas and deserts and xeric shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (29 countries), Asia (23 countries), Europe (4 countries), North America (13 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia), and South America (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia).

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.