Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum vs featherwing beetle

Thylamys elegans compared with Acrotrichis cognata

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	featherwing beetle
Kingdom same	Animalia (Animals)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Insecta (Insects)
Order	Didelphimorphia (Didelphimorphia)	Coleoptera (Beetles)
Family	Didelphidae	Ptiliidae
Genus	Thylamys	Acrotrichis
Species	Thylamys elegans	Acrotrichis cognata

Evolutionary Relationship

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum and featherwing beetle share a common ancestor at the Kingdom level: Animalia. (Animals)

Conservation Status

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

featherwing beetle

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	featherwing beetle
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

featherwing beetle

Habitat

Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.

Range

Found across Europe (11 countries) and North America (Canada, United States).