Ecuador Red Brocket vs Monkey Apple

Mazama rufina compared with Annona glabra

Key Differences

• Ecuador Red Brocket is Vulnerable while Monkey Apple is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Ecuador Red Brocket	Monkey Apple
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Artiodactyla (Even-toed Ungulates)	Magnoliales (Magnoliales)
Family	Cervidae (Deer)	Annonaceae
Genus	Mazama	Annona
Species	Mazama rufina	Annona glabra

Conservation Status

Ecuador Red Brocket

VU — Vulnerable

Monkey Apple

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Ecuador Red Brocket	Monkey Apple
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Ecuador Red Brocket

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Currently classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.

Monkey Apple

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Guinea, Seychelles), Asia (6 countries), North America (Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras), Oceania and the Pacific (6 countries), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 1 countries:

🇨🇴 Colombia