Darling Downs Hopping Mouse vs five-leaf crotalaria

Notomys mordax compared with Crotalaria quinquefolia

Key Differences

• Darling Downs Hopping Mouse is Extinct while five-leaf crotalaria is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Darling Downs Hopping Mouse	five-leaf crotalaria
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	Crotalaria
Species	Notomys mordax	Crotalaria quinquefolia

Conservation Status

Darling Downs Hopping Mouse

EX — Extinct

five-leaf crotalaria

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Darling Downs Hopping Mouse	five-leaf crotalaria
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Darling Downs Hopping Mouse

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

five-leaf crotalaria

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Australasia biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Japan, Singapore), Oceania and the Pacific (5 countries), and South America (Guyana).