Darling Downs Hopping Mouse vs Day jessamine

Notomys mordax compared with Cestrum diurnum

Key Differences

• Darling Downs Hopping Mouse is Extinct while Day jessamine is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Darling Downs Hopping Mouse	Day jessamine
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Solanales (Solanales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Solanaceae
Genus	Notomys	Cestrum
Species	Notomys mordax	Cestrum diurnum

Conservation Status

Darling Downs Hopping Mouse

EX — Extinct

Day jessamine

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Darling Downs Hopping Mouse	Day jessamine
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Darling Downs Hopping Mouse

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Day jessamine

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, temperate broadleaf and mixed forests, and tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, among 5 distinct biome types spanning the Indomalayan and Oceanian realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (South Africa), Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal), North America (Bahamas, Cuba, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (4 countries), and South America (Brazil).