Elephant Palm vs Lemming Mountain Vole

Borassus aethiopum compared with Alticola lemminus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elephant Palm	Lemming Mountain Vole
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Arecales (Arecales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Arecaceae	Cricetidae
Genus	Borassus	Alticola
Species	Borassus aethiopum	Alticola lemminus

Conservation Status

Elephant Palm

LC — Least Concern

Lemming Mountain Vole

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elephant Palm	Lemming Mountain Vole
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elephant Palm

Habitat

Inhabits deserts and xeric shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Guinea and Yemen.

Lemming Mountain Vole

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.