Jointed Pricklypear vs Ooldea dunnart

Opuntia aurantiaca compared with Sminthopsis ooldea

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Jointed Pricklypear	Ooldea dunnart
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)	Dasyuromorphia (Dasyuromorphia)
Family	Cactaceae	Dasyuridae
Genus	Opuntia	Sminthopsis
Species	Opuntia aurantiaca	Sminthopsis ooldea

Conservation Status

Jointed Pricklypear

LC — Least Concern

Ooldea dunnart

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Jointed Pricklypear	Ooldea dunnart
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.

Ooldea dunnart

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.