Drooping Tonguefern vs Oriental House Rat

Elaphoglossum herminieri compared with Rattus tanezumi

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Drooping Tonguefern	Oriental House Rat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Tracheophyta	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Polypodiales (Polypodiales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Dryopteridaceae	Muridae (Mice & Rats)
Genus	Elaphoglossum	Rattus
Species	Elaphoglossum herminieri	Rattus tanezumi

Conservation Status

Drooping Tonguefern

LC — Least Concern

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Drooping Tonguefern	Oriental House Rat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Drooping Tonguefern

Habitat

Typically found in moist, shaded forest floors and tropical canopies.

Range

Distributed across Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba.

Oriental House Rat

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Oceanian biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa), Asia (Philippines, Taiwan), and Oceania and the Pacific (Kiribati).