Bergmans’s Fruit Bat vs Vegetable fern

Scotonycteris bergmansi compared with Diplazium esculentum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat	Vegetable fern
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Tracheophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Polypodiales (Polypodiales)
Family	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)	Athyriaceae
Genus	Scotonycteris	Diplazium
Species	Scotonycteris bergmansi	Diplazium esculentum

Conservation Status

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

Vegetable fern

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Vegetable fern

Habitat

Typically found in moist, shaded forest floors and tropical canopies.

Range

Distributed across Australia, Portugal, South Africa, 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.