'Ihi vs Long-tailed Chinchilla

Oxalis corniculata compared with Chinchilla lanigera

Key Differences

• 'Ihi is Least Concern while Long-tailed Chinchilla is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	'Ihi	Long-tailed Chinchilla
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Oxalidales (Oxalidales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Oxalidaceae	Chinchillidae
Genus	Oxalis	Chinchilla
Species	Oxalis corniculata	Chinchilla lanigera

Conservation Status

'Ihi

LC — Least Concern

Long-tailed Chinchilla

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	'Ihi	Long-tailed Chinchilla
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

'Ihi

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, flooded grasslands and savannas, and deserts and xeric shrublands, among 7 distinct biome types. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (18 countries), Asia (17 countries), Europe (30 countries), North America (7 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (11 countries), and South America (7 countries).

Long-tailed Chinchilla

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Denmark, and Ecuador.

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 2 countries:

🇨🇴 Colombia 🇩🇰 Denmark