Fragrant manjack vs Midday Jird

Cordia dichotoma compared with Meriones meridianus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Fragrant manjack	Midday Jird
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Boraginales (Boraginales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Cordiaceae	Muridae (Mice & Rats)
Genus	Cordia	Meriones
Species	Cordia dichotoma	Meriones meridianus

Conservation Status

Fragrant manjack

LC — Least Concern

Midday Jird

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Fragrant manjack	Midday Jird
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Fragrant manjack

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Indomalayan biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Burkina Faso, Mauritius), Asia (Iraq, Maldives, Taiwan), and North America (United States).

Midday Jird

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.