Chestnut dunnart vs small water-pepper

Sminthopsis archeri compared with Persicaria minor

Key Differences

• Chestnut dunnart is Data Deficient while small water-pepper is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Chestnut dunnart	small water-pepper
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Dasyuromorphia (Dasyuromorphia)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Dasyuridae	Polygonaceae
Genus	Sminthopsis	Persicaria
Species	Sminthopsis archeri	Persicaria minor

Conservation Status

Chestnut dunnart

DD — Data Deficient

small water-pepper

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Chestnut dunnart	small water-pepper
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Chestnut dunnart

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

small water-pepper

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Madagascar), Europe (7 countries), North America (Canada), and Oceania and the Pacific (Micronesia, Papua New Guinea).

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.