Cupped Ear vs Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Otidea cantharella compared with Thylamys elegans

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Cupped Ear	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum
Kingdom	Fungi (Fungi)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Ascomycota (Sac Fungi)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Pezizomycetes (Pezizomycetes)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Pezizales (Pezizales)	Didelphimorphia (Didelphimorphia)
Family	Otideaceae	Didelphidae
Genus	Otidea	Thylamys
Species	Otidea cantharella	Thylamys elegans

Conservation Status

Cupped Ear

LC — Least Concern

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Cupped Ear	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Cupped Ear

Habitat

Native to Europe, inhabiting ecosystems characteristic of the region.

Range

Distributed across Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.