Ardilla Gris Oriental vs Painted Suillus

Sciurus carolinensis compared with Suillus spraguei

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Ardilla Gris Oriental	Painted Suillus
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Fungi (Fungi)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Agaricomycetes (Mushrooms)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Boletales (Boletales)
Family	Sciuridae (Squirrels)	Suillaceae
Genus	Sciurus (Tree Squirrels)	Suillus
Species	Sciurus carolinensis	Suillus spraguei

Conservation Status

Ardilla Gris Oriental

NE — Not Evaluated

Trend: Stable →

Painted Suillus

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Ardilla Gris Oriental	Painted Suillus
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).

Painted Suillus

Habitat

Typically found in forest floors, decomposing wood, and soil ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Taiwan and United States.

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.

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 1 countries:

🇺🇸 United States