Fish-bone Cassia vs Japanese Hare

Chamaecrista mimosoides compared with Lepus brachyurus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Fish-bone Cassia	Japanese Hare
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)	Lagomorpha (Rabbits & Hares)
Family	Fabaceae	Leporidae (Rabbits & Hares)
Genus	Chamaecrista	Lepus
Species	Chamaecrista mimosoides	Lepus brachyurus

Conservation Status

Fish-bone Cassia

LC — Least Concern

Japanese Hare

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Fish-bone Cassia	Japanese Hare
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Fish-bone Cassia

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and montane grasslands and shrublands spanning the Australasia and Indomalayan and Oceanian realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Comoros, Guinea, Madagascar), Asia (4 countries), and Oceania and the Pacific (6 countries).