Easter cassia vs Guayaquil Squirrel

Senna pendula compared with Sciurus stramineus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Easter cassia	Guayaquil Squirrel
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Fabaceae	Sciuridae (Squirrels)
Genus	Senna	Sciurus (Tree Squirrels)
Species	Senna pendula	Sciurus stramineus

Conservation Status

Easter cassia

LC — Least Concern

Guayaquil Squirrel

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Easter cassia	Guayaquil Squirrel
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Easter cassia

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests spanning the Australasia and Indomalayan realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Seychelles, South Africa), Asia (Indonesia), Europe (Portugal), North America (Cuba), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).