Desmarest’s Spiny Pocket Mouse vs red spiderling

Heteromys desmarestianus compared with Boerhavia diffusa

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Desmarest’s Spiny Pocket Mouse	red spiderling
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Heteromyidae	Nyctaginaceae
Genus	Heteromys	Boerhavia
Species	Heteromys desmarestianus	Boerhavia diffusa

Conservation Status

Desmarest’s Spiny Pocket Mouse

LC — Least Concern

red spiderling

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Desmarest’s Spiny Pocket Mouse	red spiderling
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Desmarest’s Spiny Pocket Mouse

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Found in Colombia.

red spiderling

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, among 5 distinct biome types within the Indomalayan biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (11 countries), Asia (7 countries), and South America (4 countries).

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 1 countries:

🇨🇴 Colombia