Jointed Pricklypear vs Pilbara ningaui

Opuntia aurantiaca compared with Ningaui timealeyi

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Jointed Pricklypear	Pilbara ningaui
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	Ningaui
Species	Opuntia aurantiaca	Ningaui timealeyi

Conservation Status

Jointed Pricklypear

LC — Least Concern

Pilbara ningaui

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Jointed Pricklypear	Pilbara ningaui
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.

Pilbara ningaui

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.