Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew vs Greater dodder

Blarina hylophaga compared with Cuscuta europaea

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew	Greater dodder
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Soricomorpha (Soricomorpha)	Solanales (Solanales)
Family	Soricidae	Convolvulaceae
Genus	Blarina	Cuscuta
Species	Blarina hylophaga	Cuscuta europaea

Conservation Status

Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew

LC — Least Concern

Greater dodder

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew	Greater dodder
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Greater dodder

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Bhutan, Turkey), Europe (5 countries), and North America (United States).