Butter Waxcap vs Long-tailed Ground Squirrel

Hygrocybe ceracea compared with Urocitellus undulatus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Butter Waxcap	Long-tailed Ground Squirrel
Kingdom	Fungi (nấm)	Animalia (động vật)
Phylum	Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)	Chordata (động vật có dây sống)
Class	Agaricomycetes (Mushrooms)	Mammalia (lớp Thú)
Order	Agaricales (Gilled Mushrooms)	Rodentia (Bộ Gặm nhấm)
Family	Hygrophoraceae	Sciuridae (Squirrels)
Genus	Hygrocybe	Urocitellus
Species	Hygrocybe ceracea	Urocitellus undulatus

Conservation Status

Butter Waxcap

LC — Least Concern

Long-tailed Ground Squirrel

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Butter Waxcap	Long-tailed Ground Squirrel
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Butter Waxcap

Habitat

Typically found in forest floors, decomposing wood, and soil ecosystems.

Range

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

Long-tailed Ground Squirrel

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Butter Waxcap

The Butter Waxcap (Hygrocybe ceracea) is a species in the genus Hygrocybe. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in forest floors, decomposing wood, and soil ecosystems.