Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum vs little-tree willow

Thylamys elegans compared with Salix arbusculoides

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	little-tree willow
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Didelphimorphia (Didelphimorphia)	Malpighiales (Malpighiales)
Family	Didelphidae	Salicaceae
Genus	Thylamys	Salix
Species	Thylamys elegans	Salix arbusculoides

Conservation Status

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

little-tree willow

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

little-tree willow

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Range

Distributed across Canada, Czech Republic, Norway, and Poland.