Jaggery palm vs Malayan civet

Caryota urens compared with Viverra tangalunga

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Jaggery palm	Malayan civet
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Arecales (Arecales)	Carnivora (Carnivorans)
Family	Arecaceae	Viverridae
Genus	Caryota	Viverra
Species	Caryota urens	Viverra tangalunga

Conservation Status

Jaggery palm

LC — Least Concern

Malayan civet

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Jaggery palm	Malayan civet
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Jaggery palm

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests spanning the Indomalayan and Neotropic realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Guinea, Seychelles, South Africa), Asia (India, Maldives, Taiwan), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).