Long-eared Hedgehog vs Rootless Duckweed

Hemiechinus auritus compared with Wolffia arrhiza

Key Differences

• Long-eared Hedgehog is Least Concern while Rootless Duckweed is Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Long-eared Hedgehog	Rootless Duckweed
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Erinaceomorpha (Erinaceomorpha)	Alismatales (Alismatales)
Family	Erinaceidae	Araceae
Genus	Hemiechinus	Wolffia
Species	Hemiechinus auritus	Wolffia arrhiza

Conservation Status

Long-eared Hedgehog

LC — Least Concern

Rootless Duckweed

EN — Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Long-eared Hedgehog	Rootless Duckweed
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Long-eared Hedgehog

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Cyprus, Spain, and Ukraine.

Rootless Duckweed

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, temperate broadleaf and mixed forests, and temperate coniferous forests, among 4 distinct biome types spanning the Indomalayan and Oceanian and Palearctic realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Japan), Europe (10 countries), North America (Canada), and South America (Brazil). Currently classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 1 countries:

🇪🇸 Spain