Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum vs

Thylamys elegans compared with Hyphoderma occidentale

Key Differences

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

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Fungi (Fungi)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Agaricomycetes (Mushrooms)
Order	Didelphimorphia (Didelphimorphia)	Polyporales (Polyporales)
Family	Didelphidae	Hyphodermataceae
Genus	Thylamys	Hyphoderma
Species	Thylamys elegans	Hyphoderma occidentale

Conservation Status

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

DD — Data Deficient

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Habitat

Typically found in forest floors, decomposing wood, and soil ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

Hyphoderma occidentale is a corticioid fungus in the family Polyporaceae, assessed as Data Deficient (DD). It grows as a thin, resupinate (crust-like) fruiting body on dead wood in forest habitats. Insufficient data on its distribution and population size make comprehensive conservation assessment difficult.