Elegant Water Shrew vs mango-pine

Nectogale elegans compared with Barringtonia asiatica

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Water Shrew	mango-pine
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Soricomorpha (Soricomorpha)	Ericales (Ericales)
Family	Soricidae	Lecythidaceae
Genus	Nectogale	Barringtonia
Species	Nectogale elegans	Barringtonia asiatica

Conservation Status

Elegant Water Shrew

LC — Least Concern

mango-pine

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elegant Water Shrew	mango-pine
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Water Shrew

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

mango-pine

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Antigua and Barbuda, Comoros, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Taiwan.