Crab-eating Mongoose vs rock hakea

Herpestes urva compared with Hakea gibbosa

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Crab-eating Mongoose	rock hakea
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Carnivora (Carnivorans)	Proteales (Proteales)
Family	Herpestidae	Proteaceae
Genus	Herpestes	Hakea
Species	Herpestes urva	Hakea gibbosa

Conservation Status

Crab-eating Mongoose

LC — Least Concern

rock hakea

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Crab-eating Mongoose	rock hakea
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Crab-eating Mongoose

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

rock hakea

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Eswatini, New Zealand, and South Africa.