Chestnut dunnart vs Easter cassia

Sminthopsis archeri compared with Senna pendula

Key Differences

• Chestnut dunnart is Data Deficient while Easter cassia is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Chestnut dunnart	Easter cassia
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Dasyuromorphia (Dasyuromorphia)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Dasyuridae	Fabaceae
Genus	Sminthopsis	Senna
Species	Sminthopsis archeri	Senna pendula

Conservation Status

Chestnut dunnart

DD — Data Deficient

Easter cassia

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Chestnut dunnart	Easter cassia
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Chestnut dunnart

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Easter cassia

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Seychelles, South Africa), Asia (Indonesia), Europe (Portugal), North America (Cuba), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

Chestnut dunnart

The Chestnut dunnart (Sminthopsis archeri) is a species in the genus Sminthopsis. It is currently classified as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.