Arizona Pocket Mouse vs Vegetable fern

Perognathus amplus compared with Diplazium esculentum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Arizona Pocket Mouse	Vegetable fern
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Tracheophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Polypodiales (Polypodiales)
Family	Heteromyidae	Athyriaceae
Genus	Perognathus	Diplazium
Species	Perognathus amplus	Diplazium esculentum

Conservation Status

Arizona Pocket Mouse

LC — Least Concern

Vegetable fern

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Arizona Pocket Mouse	Vegetable fern
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Arizona Pocket Mouse

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.

Arizona Pocket Mouse

The Arizona Pocket Mouse, Perognathus amplus, is a species. It is currently assessed as least concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.