Arrowleaf elephant's ear vs brown point snail

Xanthosoma sagittifolium compared with Acicula fusca

Key Differences

• Arrowleaf elephant's ear is Not Evaluated while brown point snail is Extinct.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Arrowleaf elephant's ear	brown point snail
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Mollusca (Mollusks)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Gastropoda (Gastropoda)
Order	Alismatales (Alismatales)	Architaenioglossa (Architaenioglossa)
Family	Araceae	Aciculidae
Genus	Xanthosoma	Acicula
Species	Xanthosoma sagittifolium	Acicula fusca

Conservation Status

Arrowleaf elephant's ear

NE — Not Evaluated

brown point snail

EX — Extinct

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Arrowleaf elephant's ear	brown point snail
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Arrowleaf elephant's ear

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and mangrove forests and coastal wetlands spanning the Indomalayan and Neotropic realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (9 countries), Asia (4 countries), North America (9 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (7 countries), and South America (Colombia).

brown point snail

Habitat

Typically found in terrestrial and aquatic habitats including forests and freshwater.

Range

Distributed across Belgium and Norway.

Arrowleaf elephant's ear

The Arrowleaf elephant's ear, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, is a species. Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and mangrove forests and coastal wetlands spanning the Indomalayan and Neotropic realms.

brown point snail

The Brown Point Snail (Acicula fusca) is a species in the genus Acicula. It is currently classified as Extinct on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in terrestrial and aquatic habitats including forests and freshwater.