coral-bean vs Jungle Shrew

Erythrina fusca compared with Suncus zeylanicus

Key Differences

• coral-bean is Least Concern while Jungle Shrew is Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	coral-bean	Jungle Shrew
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)	Soricomorpha (Soricomorpha)
Family	Fabaceae	Soricidae
Genus	Erythrina	Suncus
Species	Erythrina fusca	Suncus zeylanicus

Conservation Status

coral-bean

LC — Least Concern

Jungle Shrew

EN — Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	coral-bean	Jungle Shrew
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

coral-bean

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Oceanian biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Sao Tome and Principe), Oceania and the Pacific (Tonga), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

Jungle Shrew

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.