Child’s Rice Rat vs Vegetable fern

Nephelomys childi compared with Diplazium esculentum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Child’s Rice Rat	Vegetable fern
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Tracheophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Polypodiales (Polypodiales)
Family	Cricetidae	Athyriaceae
Genus	Nephelomys	Diplazium
Species	Nephelomys childi	Diplazium esculentum

Conservation Status

Child’s Rice Rat

LC — Least Concern

Vegetable fern

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Child’s Rice Rat	Vegetable fern
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Child’s Rice Rat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Found in Colombia.

Vegetable fern

Habitat

Typically found in moist, shaded forest floors and tropical canopies.

Range

Distributed across Australia, Portugal, South Africa, and United States.

Child’s Rice Rat

The Child’s Rice Rat (Nephelomys childi) is a species in the genus Nephelomys. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.