Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum vs floating hook moss

Thylamys elegans compared with Warnstorfia fluitans

Key Differences

• Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum is Least Concern while floating hook moss is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	floating hook moss
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Bryophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Bryopsida (Bryopsida)
Order	Didelphimorphia (Didelphimorphia)	Hypnales (Hypnales)
Family	Didelphidae	Calliergonaceae
Genus	Thylamys	Warnstorfia
Species	Thylamys elegans	Warnstorfia fluitans

Conservation Status

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

floating hook moss

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	floating hook moss
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

floating hook moss

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Europe (6 countries), North America (United States), and South America (Colombia).