Crab-eating Mongoose vs Ferny Azolla

Herpestes urva compared with Azolla pinnata

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Crab-eating Mongoose	Ferny Azolla
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Tracheophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Carnivora (Carnivorans)	Salviniales (Salviniales)
Family	Herpestidae	Salviniaceae
Genus	Herpestes	Azolla
Species	Herpestes urva	Azolla pinnata

Conservation Status

Crab-eating Mongoose

LC — Least Concern

Ferny Azolla

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Crab-eating Mongoose	Ferny Azolla
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Crab-eating Mongoose

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Ferny Azolla

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including deserts and xeric shrublands, tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, and flooded grasslands and savannas spanning the Palearctic and Oceanian realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (4 countries), Asia (Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan), North America (Mexico, United States), and Oceania and the Pacific (Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Tuvalu).