Bergmans’s Fruit Bat vs Sea fig

Scotonycteris bergmansi compared with Carpobrotus chilensis

Key Differences

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

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat	Sea fig
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)	Aizoaceae
Genus	Scotonycteris	Carpobrotus
Species	Scotonycteris bergmansi	Carpobrotus chilensis

Conservation Status

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

Sea fig

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Sea fig

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Japan), Europe (Spain), North America (Mexico, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (New Zealand), and South America (Ecuador).

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.