Arrowleaf elephant's ear vs puma

Xanthosoma sagittifolium compared with Puma concolor

Key Differences

• Arrowleaf elephant's ear is Not Evaluated while puma is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Arrowleaf elephant's ear	puma
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Alismatales (Alismatales)	Carnivora (Carnivorans)
Family	Araceae	Felidae (Cats)
Genus	Xanthosoma	Puma (Pumas)
Species	Xanthosoma sagittifolium	Puma concolor

Conservation Status

Arrowleaf elephant's ear

NE — Not Evaluated

puma

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Arrowleaf elephant's ear	puma
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).

puma

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, United States, and Venezuela.

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.

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 2 countries:

🇨🇴 Colombia 🇺🇸 United States