Bergmans’s Fruit Bat vs Prickly Coontail

Scotonycteris bergmansi compared with Ceratophyllum echinatum

Key Differences

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

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat	Prickly Coontail
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Ceratophyllales (Ceratophyllales)
Family	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)	Ceratophyllaceae
Genus	Scotonycteris	Ceratophyllum
Species	Scotonycteris bergmansi	Ceratophyllum echinatum

Conservation Status

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

Prickly Coontail

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Prickly Coontail

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Canada 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.