Darling Downs Hopping Mouse vs Jaggery palm

Notomys mordax compared with Caryota urens

Key Differences

• Darling Downs Hopping Mouse is Extinct while Jaggery palm is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Darling Downs Hopping Mouse	Jaggery palm
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Arecales (Arecales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Arecaceae
Genus	Notomys	Caryota
Species	Notomys mordax	Caryota urens

Conservation Status

Darling Downs Hopping Mouse

EX — Extinct

Jaggery palm

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Darling Downs Hopping Mouse	Jaggery palm
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Darling Downs Hopping Mouse

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Jaggery palm

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests spanning the Indomalayan and Neotropic realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Guinea, Seychelles, South Africa), Asia (India, Maldives, Taiwan), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).