Darling Downs Hopping Mouse vs Jointed Pricklypear

Notomys mordax compared with Opuntia aurantiaca

Key Differences

• Darling Downs Hopping Mouse is Extinct while Jointed Pricklypear is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Darling Downs Hopping Mouse	Jointed Pricklypear
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Cactaceae
Genus	Notomys	Opuntia
Species	Notomys mordax	Opuntia aurantiaca

Conservation Status

Darling Downs Hopping Mouse

EX — Extinct

Jointed Pricklypear

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Darling Downs Hopping Mouse	Jointed Pricklypear
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Darling Downs Hopping Mouse

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Jointed Pricklypear

Habitat

Inhabits flooded grasslands and savannas and deserts and xeric shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Australia, Eswatini, Jamaica, Namibia, and South Africa.