Elephant Palm vs Malayan Water Shrew

Borassus aethiopum compared with Chimarrogale hantu

Key Differences

• Elephant Palm is Least Concern while Malayan Water Shrew is Near Threatened.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elephant Palm	Malayan Water Shrew
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Arecales (Arecales)	Soricomorpha (Soricomorpha)
Family	Arecaceae	Soricidae
Genus	Borassus	Chimarrogale
Species	Borassus aethiopum	Chimarrogale hantu

Conservation Status

Elephant Palm

LC — Least Concern

Malayan Water Shrew

NT — Near Threatened

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elephant Palm	Malayan Water Shrew
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.

Malayan Water Shrew

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.