Ebony Cup vs Oriental House Rat

Pseudoplectania nigrella compared with Rattus tanezumi

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Ebony Cup	Oriental House Rat
Kingdom	Fungi (Fungi)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Ascomycota (Sac Fungi)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Pezizomycetes (Pezizomycetes)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Pezizales (Pezizales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Sarcosomataceae	Muridae (Mice & Rats)
Genus	Pseudoplectania	Rattus
Species	Pseudoplectania nigrella	Rattus tanezumi

Conservation Status

Ebony Cup

LC — Least Concern

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Ebony Cup	Oriental House Rat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Ebony Cup

Habitat

Native to Europe and North America, inhabiting ecosystems characteristic of the region.

Range

Distributed across Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and United States.

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).