Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle vs Whitley’s cuttlefish

Anostirus castaneus compared with Sepia whitleyana

Key Differences

• Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle is Least Concern while Whitley’s cuttlefish is Data Deficient.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Whitley’s cuttlefish
Kingdom same	Animalia (Animals)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Arthropoda (Arthropods)	Mollusca (Mollusks)
Class	Insecta (Insects)	Cephalopoda (Cephalopods)
Order	Coleoptera (Beetles)	Sepiida (Sepiida)
Family	Elateridae	Sepiidae
Genus	Anostirus	Sepia
Species	Anostirus castaneus	Sepia whitleyana

Evolutionary Relationship

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle and Whitley’s cuttlefish share a common ancestor at the Kingdom level: Animalia. (Animals)

Conservation Status

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

LC — Least Concern

Whitley’s cuttlefish

DD — Data Deficient

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle	Whitley’s cuttlefish
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

Habitat

Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.

Range

Distributed across Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Whitley’s cuttlefish

Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle

The Chestnut Coloured Click Beetle (Anostirus castaneus) is a species in the genus Anostirus. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.