fat duckweed vs Meller’s Mongoose

Lemna gibba compared with Rhynchogale melleri

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	fat duckweed	Meller’s Mongoose
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Alismatales (Alismatales)	Carnivora (Carnivorans)
Family	Araceae	Herpestidae
Genus	Lemna	Rhynchogale
Species	Lemna gibba	Rhynchogale melleri

Conservation Status

fat duckweed

LC — Least Concern

Meller’s Mongoose

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	fat duckweed	Meller’s Mongoose
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).

Meller’s Mongoose

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.