Club Grain-Spored Lichen vs gray wolf

Sarcogyne clavus compared with Canis lupus

Key Differences

Club Grain-Spored Lichen is Data Deficient while gray wolf is Critically Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Club Grain-Spored Lichen	gray wolf
Kingdom	Fungi (균계)	Animalia (동물)
Phylum	Ascomycota (자낭균류)	Chordata (척삭동물)
Class	Lecanoromycetes (요강버섯강)	Mammalia (포유류)
Order	Acarosporales (Acarosporales)	Carnivora (식육목)
Family	Acarosporaceae	Canidae (Dogs & Wolves)
Genus	Sarcogyne	Canis (Dogs & Wolves)
Species	Sarcogyne clavus	Canis lupus

Conservation Status

Club Grain-Spored Lichen

DD — Data Deficient

gray wolf

CR — Critically Endangered

Population: ~300.0K

Trend: Stable →

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Club Grain-Spored Lichen	gray wolf
Diet	—	Carnivore
Average Lifespan	—	13 years
Average Length	—	1.6 m
Average Weight	—	45.0 kg

Habitat & Geographic Range

Club Grain-Spored Lichen

Habitat

Native to Europe and North America, inhabiting ecosystems characteristic of the region.

Range

Distributed across Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and United States.

gray wolf

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, deserts and xeric shrublands, and tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, among 13 distinct biome types. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Seychelles), Asia (Japan), Europe (5 countries), North America (7 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Marshall Islands, Vanuatu), and South America (5 countries). Currently classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.

Club Grain-Spored Lichen

Sarcogyne clavus is a crustose lichen in the family Acarosporaceae, forming closely appressed, granular to warty grey-white thalli on calcareous rocks, concrete, mortar, and exposed mineral substrates. The species is characterized by its distinctive club-shaped or clavate ascospores, from which its specific name derives. Like other Sarcogyne species, it produces apothecia that are typically lecideine (lacking a thalline margin), dark-colored, and often somewhat convex. This lichen favors exposed, sunny rock faces with high calcium content, including limestone outcrops, old walls, and stone monuments. S. clavus is distributed across Europe and North America, occurring primarily in calcareous rock habitats. As a pioneer colonizer of bare rock, it contributes to the initial stages of ecological succession by weathering the substrate and accumulating organic matter. The IUCN lists this species as Data Deficient, reflecting insufficient data on its population size, distribution, and ecology to assess its conservation status with confidence. Lichens as a group are sensitive to air pollution, but calcicolous crustose lichens on exposed rock may be less vulnerable than foliose or fruticose species.

gray wolf

가장 넓은 분포 범위를 가진 야생 갯과 동물인 회색늑대는 북아메리카에서 유라시아에 걸쳐 툰드라, 숲, 초원 등 다양한 서식지에 분포합니다. 우세한 번식 쌍이 이끄는 가족 단위 무리를 이루어 생활하는 고도로 사회적인 동물입니다. 최상위 포식자로서 먹이 개체군을 조절하고 생태계 구조를 근본적으로 형성하는데, 옐로스톤에서의 재도입 사례가 이를 잘 보여줍니다. 한때 심각하게 박해받았으나 많은 지역에서 개체군이 회복 중입니다.