Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum vs Goa-bean

Thylamys elegans compared with Psophocarpus tetragonolobus

Key Differences

• Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum is Least Concern while Goa-bean is Data Deficient.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	Goa-bean
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Didelphimorphia (Didelphimorphia)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Didelphidae	Fabaceae
Genus	Thylamys	Psophocarpus
Species	Thylamys elegans	Psophocarpus tetragonolobus

Conservation Status

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

Goa-bean

DD — Data Deficient

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	Goa-bean
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Goa-bean

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and tropical and subtropical coniferous forests within the Indomalayan biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Distributed across Brazil, Colombia, Philippines, and Taiwan.