brown point snail vs Vegetable fern

Acicula fusca compared with Diplazium esculentum

Key Differences

• brown point snail is Extinct while Vegetable fern is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	brown point snail	Vegetable fern
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Mollusca (Mollusks)	Tracheophyta
Class	Gastropoda (Gastropoda)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Architaenioglossa (Architaenioglossa)	Polypodiales (Polypodiales)
Family	Aciculidae	Athyriaceae
Genus	Acicula	Diplazium
Species	Acicula fusca	Diplazium esculentum

Conservation Status

brown point snail

EX — Extinct

Vegetable fern

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	brown point snail	Vegetable fern
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

brown point snail

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Belgium and Norway.

Vegetable fern

Habitat

Typically found in moist, shaded forest floors and tropical canopies.

Range

Distributed across Australia, Portugal, South Africa, and United States.

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.