Jointed Pricklypear vs Large Japanese Mole

Opuntia aurantiaca compared with Mogera wogura

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Jointed Pricklypear	Large Japanese Mole
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)	Soricomorpha (Soricomorpha)
Family	Cactaceae	Talpidae
Genus	Opuntia	Mogera
Species	Opuntia aurantiaca	Mogera wogura

Conservation Status

Jointed Pricklypear

LC — Least Concern

Large Japanese Mole

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Jointed Pricklypear	Large Japanese Mole
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Jointed Pricklypear

Habitat

Inhabits flooded grasslands and savannas and deserts and xeric shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Australia, Eswatini, Jamaica, Namibia, and South Africa.

Large Japanese Mole

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.