climbing-oleander vs Pygmy three-toed sloth

Strophanthus gratus compared with Bradypus pygmaeus

Key Differences

• climbing-oleander is Not Evaluated while Pygmy three-toed sloth is Critically Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	climbing-oleander	Pygmy three-toed sloth
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Gentianales (Gentianales)	Pilosa (Sloths & Anteaters)
Family	Apocynaceae	Bradypodidae (Three-toed Sloths)
Genus	Strophanthus	Bradypus (Three-toed Sloths)
Species	Strophanthus gratus	Bradypus pygmaeus

Conservation Status

climbing-oleander

NE — Not Evaluated

Pygmy three-toed sloth

CR — Critically Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	climbing-oleander	Pygmy three-toed sloth
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

climbing-oleander

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Guinea and India.

Pygmy three-toed sloth

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

climbing-oleander

Climbing Oleander, Strophanthus gratus, is a woody liana or climbing shrub in the family Apocynaceae native to tropical West and Central Africa, occurring in rainforest margins, gallery forest, and secondary forest from Senegal to Uganda. The species belongs to a genus celebrated for the cardiac glycosides and arrow poisons produced in the seeds; Strophanthus species were the source of the drug ouabain (g-strophanthin), historically used in cardiac medicine and by African hunters as an arrow poison applied to hunting darts. Climbing Oleander produces large, funnel-shaped flowers with white to pale pink twisted petals and a fringe of elongated lobes at the corolla mouth, borne in terminal cymes that are highly ornamental. The name 'climbing oleander' refers to the superficial resemblance of the flowers to the related Mediterranean oleander (Nerium oleander). The species climbs by twining its stems around supporting vegetation and is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental in tropical gardens. The seeds contain strophanthin and other potent glycosides that affect the cardiac system; all parts of the plant are toxic if ingested. The species is not currently assessed as threatened within its native tropical African range.