Jointed Pricklypear vs Malayan civet

Opuntia aurantiaca compared with Viverra tangalunga

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Jointed Pricklypear	Malayan civet
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)	Carnivora (Carnivorans)
Family	Cactaceae	Viverridae
Genus	Opuntia	Viverra
Species	Opuntia aurantiaca	Viverra tangalunga

Conservation Status

Jointed Pricklypear

LC — Least Concern

Malayan civet

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Jointed Pricklypear	Malayan civet
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.

Malayan civet

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.