Bergmans’s Fruit Bat vs Prickly Yellow

Scotonycteris bergmansi compared with Zanthoxylum caribaeum

Key Differences

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

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat	Prickly Yellow
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Sapindales (Sapindales)
Family	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)	Rutaceae
Genus	Scotonycteris	Zanthoxylum
Species	Scotonycteris bergmansi	Zanthoxylum caribaeum

Conservation Status

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

Prickly Yellow

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Prickly Yellow

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba.

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.