Bergmans’s Fruit Bat vs Sour Prickle

Scotonycteris bergmansi compared with Opuntia dillenii

Key Differences

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

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat	Sour Prickle
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)	Cactaceae
Genus	Scotonycteris	Opuntia
Species	Scotonycteris bergmansi	Opuntia dillenii

Conservation Status

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

Sour Prickle

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Sour Prickle

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Madagascar), Asia (5 countries), Europe (4 countries), and South America (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.