Long-tailed Ground Squirrel vs

Urocitellus undulatus compared with Postia lowei

Key Differences

• Long-tailed Ground Squirrel is Least Concern while is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Long-tailed Ground Squirrel
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Fungi (Fungi)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Agaricomycetes (Mushrooms)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Polyporales (Polyporales)
Family	Sciuridae (Squirrels)	Dacryobolaceae
Genus	Urocitellus	Postia
Species	Urocitellus undulatus	Postia lowei

Conservation Status

Long-tailed Ground Squirrel

LC — Least Concern

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Long-tailed Ground Squirrel
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Long-tailed Ground Squirrel

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Habitat

Typically found in forest floors, decomposing wood, and soil ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Norway, Sweden, and Taiwan.

Postia lowei is a soft, white to cream-colored bracket fungus forming annual, shelf-like fruiting bodies on decaying conifer wood. It inhabits boreal and montane coniferous forests, growing on dead fallen logs and stumps. This brown-rot saprotrophic fungus decomposes the cellulose of conifer wood, leaving characteristic brown cubical rot.