Common Water-Nymph vs Bely Medved

Najas guadalupensis compared with Ursus maritimus

Key Differences

Common Water-Nymph is Not Evaluated while Bely Medved is Vulnerable.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Common Water-Nymph	Bely Medved
Kingdom	Plantae (растения)	Animalia (животные)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (магнолиофиты)	Chordata (хордовые)
Class	Liliopsida (лилиопсиды)	Mammalia (млекопитающие)
Order	Alismatales (частухоцветные)	Carnivora (хищные)
Family	Hydrocharitaceae	Ursidae (Bears)
Genus	Najas	Ursus (Bears)
Species	Najas guadalupensis	Ursus maritimus

Conservation Status

Common Water-Nymph

NE — Not Evaluated

Bely Medved

VU — Vulnerable

Population: ~26.0K

Trend: Decreasing ↓

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Common Water-Nymph	Bely Medved
Diet	—	Carnivore
Average Lifespan	—	25 years
Average Length	—	2.4 m
Average Weight	—	450.0 kg

Habitat & Geographic Range

Common Water-Nymph

Habitat

Typically found in grasslands, wetlands, forests, and cultivated landscapes.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Israel, Taiwan), Europe (4 countries), North America (4 countries), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

Bely Medved

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including temperate broadleaf and mixed forests, temperate coniferous forests, and boreal forests and taiga, among 4 distinct biome types within the Palearctic biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Found in Norway. Currently classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.

Common Water-Nymph

<em>Najas guadalupensis</em>, commonly known as the common water nymph or southern naiad, is a submerged aquatic plant in the family Hydrocharitaceae. Its conservation status is listed as Not Evaluated by the IUCN. The species has an extensive distribution spanning Asia, Europe, and the Americas, where it inhabits a wide range of lentic and lotic freshwater environments including ponds, lakes, slow streams, and irrigation channels. It typically grows fully submerged, rooting in sandy or muddy substrates in water ranging from shallow margins to depths exceeding two meters. The plant is slender and branching, with narrow, finely toothed leaves arranged oppositely or in whorls along the stem. <em>Najas guadalupensis</em> is adapted to a range of water quality conditions and can persist in turbid, nutrient-enriched environments where other aquatic macrophytes cannot. It typically reproduces through both seed and fragmentation, with stem fragments readily establishing new colonies. Pollination occurs underwater, with pollen dispersed directly through the water column. Biological traits including average lifespan, stem length, and mass remain poorly documented in standardized databases. Ecologically, common water nymph provides important submerged habitat structure for fish, invertebrates, and waterfowl, offering spawning substrate, foraging areas, and refuge from predators in the diverse freshwater systems it occupies throughout its broad geographic range.

Bely Medved

The largest land carnivore on Earth, polar bears can exceed 700 kg and are found across Arctic sea ice from Canada to Russia. Highly specialized marine mammals that rely on sea ice to hunt ringed and bearded seals. Excellent swimmers capable of covering vast distances in open water. Listed as Vulnerable, with populations under severe pressure from rapid Arctic sea ice loss due to climate change.