Fat-tailed Jird vs Floating Fern

Pachyuromys duprasi compared with Salvinia natans

Key Differences

• Fat-tailed Jird is Least Concern while Floating Fern is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Fat-tailed Jird	Floating Fern
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Tracheophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Salviniales (Salviniales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Salviniaceae
Genus	Pachyuromys	Salvinia
Species	Pachyuromys duprasi	Salvinia natans

Conservation Status

Fat-tailed Jird

LC — Least Concern

Floating Fern

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Fat-tailed Jird	Floating Fern
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Fat-tailed Jird

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Floating Fern

Habitat

Typically found in moist, shaded forest floors and tropical canopies.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (4 countries), Europe (9 countries), North America (Honduras), and Oceania and the Pacific (Australia).