Crowned Tooth vs Mound-building Mouse

Hydnellum lepidum compared with Mus spicilegus

Key Differences

Crowned Tooth is Vulnerable while Mound-building Mouse is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Crowned Tooth	Mound-building Mouse
Kingdom	Fungi (nấm)	Animalia (động vật)
Phylum	Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)	Chordata (động vật có dây sống)
Class	Agaricomycetes (Mushrooms)	Mammalia (lớp Thú)
Order	Thelephorales (Thelephorales)	Rodentia (Bộ Gặm nhấm)
Family	Bankeraceae	Muridae (Mice & Rats)
Genus	Hydnellum	Mus (House Mice)
Species	Hydnellum lepidum	Mus spicilegus

Conservation Status

Crowned Tooth

VU — Vulnerable

Mound-building Mouse

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Crowned Tooth	Mound-building Mouse
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Crowned Tooth

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Currently classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.