buffalo-grass vs Chinese Red Pika

Tripsacum dactyloides compared with Ochotona erythrotis

Key Differences

• buffalo-grass is Not Evaluated while Chinese Red Pika is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	buffalo-grass	Chinese Red Pika
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Poales (Grasses)	Lagomorpha (Rabbits & Hares)
Family	Poaceae (Grass Family)	Ochotonidae
Genus	Tripsacum	Ochotona
Species	Tripsacum dactyloides	Ochotona erythrotis

Conservation Status

buffalo-grass

NE — Not Evaluated

Chinese Red Pika

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	buffalo-grass	Chinese Red Pika
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

buffalo-grass

Habitat

Typically found in grasslands, wetlands, forests, and cultivated landscapes.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan), North America (Cuba), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

Chinese Red Pika

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

buffalo-grass

The Buffalo-Grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) is a species in the genus Tripsacum. Typically found in grasslands, wetlands, forests, and cultivated landscapes.

Chinese Red Pika

The Chinese Red Pika (Ochotona erythrotis) is a species in the genus Ochotona. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.