Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum vs One-Glumed Spike-Rush

Thylamys elegans compared with Eleocharis uniglumis

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	One-Glumed Spike-Rush
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	Eleocharis
Species	Thylamys elegans	Eleocharis uniglumis

Conservation Status

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

One-Glumed Spike-Rush

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	One-Glumed Spike-Rush
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

One-Glumed Spike-Rush

Habitat

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

Range

Found across Europe (7 countries) and North America (Canada).