Chestnut dunnart vs Tickclover

Sminthopsis archeri compared with Desmodium incanum

Key Differences

• Chestnut dunnart is Data Deficient while Tickclover is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Chestnut dunnart	Tickclover
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	Desmodium
Species	Sminthopsis archeri	Desmodium incanum

Conservation Status

Chestnut dunnart

DD — Data Deficient

Tickclover

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Chestnut dunnart	Tickclover
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Chestnut dunnart

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Tickclover

Habitat

Inhabits flooded grasslands and savannas within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (10 countries), Asia (Japan), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (12 countries), 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.