Jointed Pricklypear vs Mountain Goat

Opuntia aurantiaca compared with Oreamnos americanus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Jointed Pricklypear	Mountain Goat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)	Artiodactyla (Even-toed Ungulates)
Family	Cactaceae	Bovidae (Bovids)
Genus	Opuntia	Oreamnos
Species	Opuntia aurantiaca	Oreamnos americanus

Conservation Status

Jointed Pricklypear

LC — Least Concern

Mountain Goat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Jointed Pricklypear	Mountain Goat
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.

Mountain Goat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.