Cuckoo-Bread vs Oriental House Rat

Oxalis acetosella compared with Rattus tanezumi

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Cuckoo-Bread	Oriental House Rat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Oxalidales (Oxalidales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Oxalidaceae	Muridae (Mice & Rats)
Genus	Oxalis	Rattus
Species	Oxalis acetosella	Rattus tanezumi

Conservation Status

Cuckoo-Bread

LC — Least Concern

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Cuckoo-Bread	Oriental House Rat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Cuckoo-Bread

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Range

Found across Europe (6 countries) and North America (United States).

Oriental House Rat

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Oceanian biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa), Asia (Philippines, Taiwan), and Oceania and the Pacific (Kiribati).