Crab-eating Mongoose vs Deviltree

Herpestes urva compared with Alstonia macrophylla

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Crab-eating Mongoose	Deviltree
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Carnivora (Carnivorans)	Gentianales (Gentianales)
Family	Herpestidae	Apocynaceae
Genus	Herpestes	Alstonia
Species	Herpestes urva	Alstonia macrophylla

Conservation Status

Crab-eating Mongoose

LC — Least Concern

Deviltree

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Crab-eating Mongoose	Deviltree
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Crab-eating Mongoose

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Deviltree

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and deserts and xeric shrublands within the Indomalayan biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Distributed across Congo (DRC), Seychelles, Sri Lanka, and United States.