Ardilla Gris Oriental vs Barn Fern

Sciurus carolinensis compared with Asplenium haughtonii

Key Differences

• Ardilla Gris Oriental is Not Evaluated while Barn Fern is Critically Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Ardilla Gris Oriental	Barn Fern
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Tracheophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Polypodiales (Polypodiales)
Family	Sciuridae (Squirrels)	Aspleniaceae
Genus	Sciurus (Tree Squirrels)	Asplenium
Species	Sciurus carolinensis	Asplenium haughtonii

Conservation Status

Ardilla Gris Oriental

NE — Not Evaluated

Trend: Stable →

Barn Fern

CR — Critically Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Ardilla Gris Oriental	Barn Fern
Diet	Omnivore	—
Average Lifespan	6 years	—
Average Length	25 cm	—
Average Weight	500 g	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Ardilla Gris Oriental

Habitat

Typically found in a wide range of habitat types.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (South Africa), Asia (Indonesia), Europe (10 countries), and North America (Mexico, United States).

Barn Fern

Habitat

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

Ardilla Gris Oriental

Native to eastern North America but successfully introduced to Europe and other regions, the eastern gray squirrel is a medium-sized arboreal rodent weighing up to 600 g. Highly adaptable, thriving in forests, parks, and urban gardens, gray squirrels cache thousands of nuts and seeds each autumn, inadvertently planting trees through forgotten caches. In Britain, they have largely displaced the native red squirrel by outcompeting them for food.

Barn Fern

The Barn Fern (Asplenium haughtonii) is a species in the genus Asplenium. It is currently classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in moist, shaded forest floors and tropical canopies.