Fat-tailed Jird vs Vegetable fern

Pachyuromys duprasi compared with Diplazium esculentum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Fat-tailed Jird	Vegetable fern
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Tracheophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Polypodiales (Polypodiales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Athyriaceae
Genus	Pachyuromys	Diplazium
Species	Pachyuromys duprasi	Diplazium esculentum

Conservation Status

Fat-tailed Jird

LC — Least Concern

Vegetable fern

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Fat-tailed Jird	Vegetable fern
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Fat-tailed Jird

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Vegetable fern

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Australia, Portugal, South Africa, and United States.