Darling Downs Hopping Mouse vs Dwarf Water Clover

Notomys mordax compared with Marsilea minuta

Key Differences

• Darling Downs Hopping Mouse is Extinct while Dwarf Water Clover is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Darling Downs Hopping Mouse	Dwarf Water Clover
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Tracheophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Salviniales (Salviniales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Marsileaceae
Genus	Notomys	Marsilea
Species	Notomys mordax	Marsilea minuta

Conservation Status

Darling Downs Hopping Mouse

EX — Extinct

Dwarf Water Clover

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Darling Downs Hopping Mouse	Dwarf Water Clover
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Darling Downs Hopping Mouse

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Dwarf Water Clover

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and mangrove forests and coastal wetlands, among 4 distinct biome types spanning the Indomalayan and Palearctic realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Algeria, Comoros), Asia (Bhutan, Taiwan, Vietnam), North America (United States), and South America (Brazil).