Elegant Water Shrew vs four-leaf devil-pepper

Nectogale elegans compared with Rauvolfia tetraphylla

Key Differences

• Elegant Water Shrew is Least Concern while four-leaf devil-pepper is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Water Shrew	four-leaf devil-pepper
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Soricomorpha (Soricomorpha)	Gentianales (Gentianales)
Family	Soricidae	Apocynaceae
Genus	Nectogale	Rauvolfia
Species	Nectogale elegans	Rauvolfia tetraphylla

Conservation Status

Elegant Water Shrew

LC — Least Concern

four-leaf devil-pepper

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elegant Water Shrew	four-leaf devil-pepper
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Water Shrew

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

four-leaf devil-pepper

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Australia, Colombia, India, and Taiwan.