Long-eared Hedgehog vs stinking goosefoot

Hemiechinus auritus compared with Chenopodium vulvaria

Key Differences

Long-eared Hedgehog is Least Concern while stinking goosefoot is Critically Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Long-eared Hedgehog	stinking goosefoot
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Erinaceomorpha (Erinaceomorpha)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Erinaceidae	Amaranthaceae
Genus	Hemiechinus	Chenopodium
Species	Hemiechinus auritus	Chenopodium vulvaria

Conservation Status

Long-eared Hedgehog

LC — Least Concern

stinking goosefoot

CR — Critically Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Long-eared Hedgehog	stinking goosefoot
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.

stinking goosefoot

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, flooded grasslands and savannas, and deserts and xeric shrublands, among 8 distinct biome types spanning the Afrotropic and Palearctic and Neotropic realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Chad), Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan), Europe (20 countries), North America (Canada, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia), and South America (Chile). Currently classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.