Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum vs Haspan flatsedge

Thylamys elegans compared with Cyperus haspan

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	Haspan flatsedge
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Didelphimorphia (Didelphimorphia)	Poales (Grasses)
Family	Didelphidae	Cyperaceae
Genus	Thylamys	Cyperus
Species	Thylamys elegans	Cyperus haspan

Conservation Status

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

Haspan flatsedge

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	Haspan flatsedge
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Haspan flatsedge

Habitat

Typically found in grasslands, wetlands, forests, and cultivated landscapes.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Burundi, Guinea, Seychelles), Asia (Singapore, Taiwan), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Fiji, Micronesia, Palau), and South America (Brazil, Chile, Colombia).