Brazilian Porcupine vs Wild passionfruit

Coendou prehensilis compared with Passiflora suberosa

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Brazilian Porcupine	Wild passionfruit
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Malpighiales (Malpighiales)
Family	Erethizontidae	Passifloraceae
Genus	Coendou	Passiflora
Species	Coendou prehensilis	Passiflora suberosa

Conservation Status

Brazilian Porcupine

LC — Least Concern

Wild passionfruit

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Brazilian Porcupine	Wild passionfruit
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Brazilian Porcupine

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia and Venezuela.

Wild passionfruit

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including flooded grasslands and savannas, deserts and xeric shrublands, and mangrove forests and coastal wetlands within the Indomalayan biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (7 countries), Asia (8 countries), Europe (Portugal, Spain), North America (5 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (8 countries), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

Brazilian Porcupine

The Brazilian Porcupine (Coendou prehensilis) is a species in the genus Coendou. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.