Marble-fruit Prickly-pear vs puma

Opuntia strigil compared with Puma concolor

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Marble-fruit Prickly-pear	puma
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)	Carnivora (Carnivorans)
Family	Cactaceae	Felidae (Cats)
Genus	Opuntia	Puma (Pumas)
Species	Opuntia strigil	Puma concolor

Conservation Status

Marble-fruit Prickly-pear

LC — Least Concern

puma

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Marble-fruit Prickly-pear	puma
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Marble-fruit Prickly-pear

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

puma

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, United States, and Venezuela.