Baby’s Tears vs Jentink's Duiker

Lindernia rotundifolia compared with Cephalophus jentinki

Key Differences

• Baby’s Tears is Least Concern while Jentink's Duiker is Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Baby’s Tears	Jentink's Duiker
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Lamiales (Lamiales)	Artiodactyla (Even-toed Ungulates)
Family	Linderniaceae	Bovidae (Bovids)
Genus	Lindernia	Cephalophus
Species	Lindernia rotundifolia	Cephalophus jentinki

Conservation Status

Baby’s Tears

LC — Least Concern

Jentink's Duiker

EN — Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Baby’s Tears	Jentink's Duiker
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Baby’s Tears

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Brazil, Colombia, Mauritius, Mexico, and Taiwan.

Jentink's Duiker

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Baby’s Tears

The Baby’s Tears (Lindernia rotundifolia) is a species in the genus Lindernia. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.