Club-tailed Dragonfly vs Epaulard

Gomphus vulgatissimus compared with Orcinus orca

Key Differences

Club-tailed Dragonfly is Near Threatened while Epaulard is Data Deficient.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Club-tailed Dragonfly	Epaulard
Kingdom same	Animalia (Animals)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Arthropoda (artrópode)	Chordata (cordados)
Class	Insecta (inseto)	Mammalia (mamíferos)
Order	Odonata (Odonata)	Cetacea (Whales & Dolphins)
Family	Gomphidae	Delphinidae (Oceanic Dolphins)
Genus	Gomphus	Orcinus (Orcas)
Species	Gomphus vulgatissimus	Orcinus orca

Evolutionary Relationship

Club-tailed Dragonfly and Epaulard share a common ancestor at the Kingdom level: Animalia. (Animals)

View Kingdom: Animalia

Conservation Status

Club-tailed Dragonfly

NT — Near Threatened

Epaulard

DD — Data Deficient

Population: ~50.0K

Trend: Unknown ?

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Club-tailed Dragonfly	Epaulard
Diet	—	Carnivore
Average Lifespan	—	50 years
Average Length	—	8.0 m
Average Weight	—	5.4 t

Habitat & Geographic Range

Club-tailed Dragonfly

Habitat

Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.

Range

Distributed across Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, and Sweden. Listed as Near Threatened, this species requires ongoing monitoring to prevent population decline.

Epaulard

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, among 11 distinct biome types. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Taiwan), Europe (4 countries), and South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela).

Club-tailed Dragonfly

A libélula-de-cauda-em-clava (Gomphus vulgatissimus) está classificada como Quase Ameaçada (NT) na Lista Vermelha da IUCN. Próxima de se qualificar como ameaçada, com populações que podem tornar-se vulneráveis sem medidas de conservação.

Epaulard

O maior membro da família dos golfinhos, as orcas (Orcinus orca) podem atingir até 9 metros de comprimento e 6 toneladas, sendo encontradas em todos os oceanos, do Ártico ao Antártico. Predadores de topo que vivem em grupos matrilineares com dialetos distintos, estratégias de caça e tradições culturais que diferem entre populações. Algumas populações se especializam em peixes, outras em mamíferos marinhos. Sem predadores naturais, as orcas ocupam o topo de todas as cadeias alimentares marinhas que habitam.