Meller’s Mongoose vs Vegetable fern

Rhynchogale melleri compared with Diplazium esculentum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Meller’s Mongoose	Vegetable fern
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Tracheophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Carnivora (Carnivorans)	Polypodiales (Polypodiales)
Family	Herpestidae	Athyriaceae
Genus	Rhynchogale	Diplazium
Species	Rhynchogale melleri	Diplazium esculentum

Conservation Status

Meller’s Mongoose

LC — Least Concern

Vegetable fern

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Meller’s Mongoose	Vegetable fern
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Meller’s Mongoose

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Vegetable fern

Habitat

Typically found in moist, shaded forest floors and tropical canopies.

Range

Distributed across Australia, Portugal, South Africa, and United States.