Elegant Water Shrew vs Septicweed

Nectogale elegans compared with Senna occidentalis

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Water Shrew	Septicweed
Kingdom	Animalia (животные)	Plantae (растения)
Phylum	Chordata (хордовые)	Magnoliophyta (магнолиофиты)
Class	Mammalia (млекопитающие)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Soricomorpha (землеройкообразные)	Fabales (бобовоцветные)
Family	Soricidae	Fabaceae
Genus	Nectogale	Senna
Species	Nectogale elegans	Senna occidentalis

Conservation Status

Elegant Water Shrew

LC — Least Concern

Septicweed

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elegant Water Shrew	Septicweed
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Water Shrew

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Septicweed

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, montane grasslands and shrublands, and deserts and xeric shrublands, among 4 distinct biome types spanning the Afrotropic and Indomalayan realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (40 countries), Asia (19 countries), Europe (8 countries), North America (7 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (13 countries), and South America (Brazil, Colombia, Guyana).