Bornean Smooth-Tailed Treeshrew vs Red leucaena

Dendrogale melanura compared with Leucaena diversifolia

Key Differences

• Bornean Smooth-Tailed Treeshrew is Data Deficient while Red leucaena is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bornean Smooth-Tailed Treeshrew	Red leucaena
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Scandentia (Scandentia)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Tupaiidae	Fabaceae
Genus	Dendrogale	Leucaena
Species	Dendrogale melanura	Leucaena diversifolia

Conservation Status

Bornean Smooth-Tailed Treeshrew

DD — Data Deficient

Red leucaena

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bornean Smooth-Tailed Treeshrew	Red leucaena
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bornean Smooth-Tailed Treeshrew

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Red leucaena

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and flooded grasslands and savannas, among 5 distinct biome types spanning the Afrotropic and Neotropic realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (29 countries), Asia (6 countries), North America (13 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Papua New Guinea), and South America (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador).

Bornean Smooth-Tailed Treeshrew

The Bornean Smooth-tailed Treeshrew (Dendrogale melanura) is a species in the genus Dendrogale. It is currently classified as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.