Crab-eating Mongoose vs Marsh fleabane

Herpestes urva compared with Pluchea carolinensis

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Crab-eating Mongoose	Marsh fleabane
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Carnivora (Carnivorans)	Asterales (Daisies & Sunflowers)
Family	Herpestidae	Asteraceae (Daisy Family)
Genus	Herpestes	Pluchea
Species	Herpestes urva	Pluchea carolinensis

Conservation Status

Crab-eating Mongoose

LC — Least Concern

Marsh fleabane

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Crab-eating Mongoose	Marsh fleabane
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Crab-eating Mongoose

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Marsh fleabane

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Taiwan), Europe (Spain), North America (5 countries), and Oceania and the Pacific (6 countries).