Coast Cinquefoil vs gorilla

Potentilla litoralis compared with Gorilla gorilla

Key Differences

Coast Cinquefoil is Not Evaluated while gorilla is Critically Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Coast Cinquefoil	gorilla
Kingdom	Plantae (植物)	Animalia (動物)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (被子植物門)	Chordata (脊索動物)
Class	Magnoliopsida (モクレン綱)	Mammalia (哺乳類)
Order	Rosales (バラ目)	Primates (サル目)
Family	Rosaceae (Rose Family)	Hominidae (Great Apes)
Genus	Potentilla	Gorilla (Gorillas)
Species	Potentilla litoralis	Gorilla gorilla

Conservation Status

Coast Cinquefoil

NE — Not Evaluated

gorilla

CR — Critically Endangered

Population: ~100.0K

Trend: Decreasing ↓

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Coast Cinquefoil	gorilla
Diet	—	Herbivore
Average Lifespan	—	40 years
Average Length	—	1.7 m
Average Weight	—	160.0 kg

Habitat & Geographic Range

Coast Cinquefoil

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Canada, Norway, and United States.

gorilla

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, and flooded grasslands and savannas, among 4 distinct biome types within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Distributed across Cameroon, Congo (Republic), Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Currently classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.

Coast Cinquefoil

Coast cinquefoil (Potentilla litoralis) is a low-growing perennial herb in the family Rosaceae, found along coastal habitats of Atlantic North America and Scandinavia. It grows on rocky shorelines, coastal gravel, salt-sprayed headlands, and cliff-top grasslands just above the high tide zone. Like other cinquefoils, it bears five-petalled yellow flowers and compound leaves divided into toothed leaflets, a characteristic form of the Potentilla genus. Coast cinquefoil is adapted to maritime exposure, tolerating salt, wind, and thin, nutrient-poor substrates. Its prostrate or mat-forming growth habit reduces exposure in exposed coastal conditions. The species occupies a niche between maritime and terrestrial plant communities, often growing alongside other maritime specialists such as sea plantain and sea campion. Its IUCN conservation status is Not Evaluated. Taxonomically, Potentilla litoralis occupies a complex position within the genus, which contains hundreds of species and has historically been subject to different circumscriptions depending on taxonomic authority. Regional populations in the British Isles and Scandinavia are generally considered stable in suitable coastal habitat.

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世界最大の霊長類であるニシゴリラは体重が最大180kgに達し、赤道アフリカの熱帯・亜熱帯の森林に生息する。主に草食性で、群れを守り社会的な対立を仲裁するシルバーバック雄が率いる家族集団を形成する。森林破壊、食肉目的の密猟、エボラウイルス感染症の流行により脅威にさらされており、近絶滅種（CR）に指定されている。