Darling Downs Hopping Mouse vs Easter cassia

Notomys mordax compared with Senna pendula

Key Differences

• Darling Downs Hopping Mouse is Extinct while Easter cassia is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Darling Downs Hopping Mouse	Easter cassia
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Fabaceae
Genus	Notomys	Senna
Species	Notomys mordax	Senna pendula

Conservation Status

Darling Downs Hopping Mouse

EX — Extinct

Easter cassia

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Darling Downs Hopping Mouse	Easter cassia
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Darling Downs Hopping Mouse

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Easter cassia

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests spanning the Australasia and Indomalayan realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Seychelles, South Africa), Asia (Indonesia), Europe (Portugal), North America (Cuba), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).