Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum vs Mastic Thyme

Thylamys elegans compared with Thymus mastichina

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	Mastic Thyme
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Didelphimorphia (Didelphimorphia)	Lamiales (Lamiales)
Family	Didelphidae	Lamiaceae
Genus	Thylamys	Thymus
Species	Thylamys elegans	Thymus mastichina

Conservation Status

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

Mastic Thyme

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Mastic Thyme

Habitat

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