chainfruit vs cylindrical cone

Alyxia ilicifolia compared with Conus cylindraceus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	chainfruit	cylindrical cone
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Mollusca (Mollusks)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Gastropoda (Gastropoda)
Order	Gentianales (Gentianales)	Neogastropoda (Neogastropoda)
Family	Apocynaceae	Conidae
Genus	Alyxia	Conus
Species	Alyxia ilicifolia	Conus cylindraceus

Conservation Status

chainfruit

LC — Least Concern

cylindrical cone

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	chainfruit	cylindrical cone
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

chainfruit

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

cylindrical cone

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and tropical and subtropical coniferous forests spanning the Australasia and Afrotropic and Indomalayan realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Madagascar, Mauritius), Asia (Philippines, Taiwan), North America (United States), and Oceania and the Pacific (Micronesia, Solomon Islands).

chainfruit

The Chainfruit (Alyxia ilicifolia) is a species in the genus Alyxia. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.