Jaggery palm vs Marley’s Golden Mole

Caryota urens compared with Amblysomus marleyi

Key Differences

• Jaggery palm is Least Concern while Marley’s Golden Mole is Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Jaggery palm	Marley’s Golden Mole
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Arecales (Arecales)	Afrosoricida (Afrosoricida)
Family	Arecaceae	Chrysochloridae
Genus	Caryota	Amblysomus
Species	Caryota urens	Amblysomus marleyi

Conservation Status

Jaggery palm

LC — Least Concern

Marley’s Golden Mole

EN — Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Jaggery palm	Marley’s Golden Mole
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).

Marley’s Golden Mole

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.