Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum vs false pepperwort

Thylamys elegans compared with Marsilea crenata

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	false pepperwort
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Tracheophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Didelphimorphia (Didelphimorphia)	Salviniales (Salviniales)
Family	Didelphidae	Marsileaceae
Genus	Thylamys	Marsilea
Species	Thylamys elegans	Marsilea crenata

Conservation Status

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

false pepperwort

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	false pepperwort
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

false pepperwort

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests spanning the Australasia and Indomalayan realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Found in Indonesia.