Crab-eating Mongoose vs Dwarf eelgrass

Herpestes urva compared with Zostera japonica

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Crab-eating Mongoose	Dwarf eelgrass
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (plantas)
Phylum	Chordata (cordados)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (mamíferos)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Carnivora (carnívoros)	Alismatales (Alismatales)
Family	Herpestidae	Zosteraceae
Genus	Herpestes	Zostera
Species	Herpestes urva	Zostera japonica

Conservation Status

Crab-eating Mongoose

LC — Least Concern

Dwarf eelgrass

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Crab-eating Mongoose	Dwarf eelgrass
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Crab-eating Mongoose

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Dwarf eelgrass

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Indomalayan biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Canada, Laos, Norway, Taiwan, and United States.