Chestnut dunnart vs Jointed Pricklypear

Sminthopsis archeri compared with Opuntia aurantiaca

Key Differences

• Chestnut dunnart is Data Deficient while Jointed Pricklypear is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Chestnut dunnart	Jointed Pricklypear
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Dasyuromorphia (Dasyuromorphia)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Dasyuridae	Cactaceae
Genus	Sminthopsis	Opuntia
Species	Sminthopsis archeri	Opuntia aurantiaca

Conservation Status

Chestnut dunnart

DD — Data Deficient

Jointed Pricklypear

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Chestnut dunnart	Jointed Pricklypear
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Chestnut dunnart

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Jointed Pricklypear

Habitat

Inhabits flooded grasslands and savannas and deserts and xeric shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Australia, Eswatini, Jamaica, Namibia, and South Africa.

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.