Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum vs Pitaya

Thylamys elegans compared with Echinocereus enneacanthus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	Pitaya
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Didelphimorphia (Didelphimorphia)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Didelphidae	Cactaceae
Genus	Thylamys	Echinocereus
Species	Thylamys elegans	Echinocereus enneacanthus

Conservation Status

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

Pitaya

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Pitaya

Habitat

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

Range

Found in Taiwan.