false broom vs Marley’s Golden Mole

Brachypodium sylvaticum compared with Amblysomus marleyi

Key Differences

• false broom is Least Concern while Marley’s Golden Mole is Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	false broom	Marley’s Golden Mole
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Poales (Grasses)	Afrosoricida (Afrosoricida)
Family	Poaceae (Grass Family)	Chrysochloridae
Genus	Brachypodium	Amblysomus
Species	Brachypodium sylvaticum	Amblysomus marleyi

Conservation Status

false broom

LC — Least Concern

Marley’s Golden Mole

EN — Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	false broom	Marley’s Golden Mole
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

false broom

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and deserts and xeric shrublands within the Indomalayan biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Sri Lanka, Taiwan), Europe (6 countries), North America (United States), and South America (Argentina, Brazil).

Marley’s Golden Mole

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.