fat duckweed vs Gray-bellied dunnart

Lemna gibba compared with Sminthopsis griseoventer

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	fat duckweed	Gray-bellied dunnart
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Alismatales (Alismatales)	Dasyuromorphia (Dasyuromorphia)
Family	Araceae	Dasyuridae
Genus	Lemna	Sminthopsis
Species	Lemna gibba	Sminthopsis griseoventer

Conservation Status

fat duckweed

LC — Least Concern

Gray-bellied dunnart

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	fat duckweed	Gray-bellied dunnart
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

fat duckweed

Habitat

Inhabits deserts and xeric shrublands and flooded grasslands and savannas within the Palearctic biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Egypt), Asia (Japan), Europe (6 countries), North America (Canada), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

Gray-bellied dunnart

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.