Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum vs Ragged Pseudocyphellaria

Thylamys elegans compared with Pseudocyphellaria lacerata

Key Differences

• Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum is Least Concern while Ragged Pseudocyphellaria is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	Ragged Pseudocyphellaria
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Fungi (Fungi)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Ascomycota (Sac Fungi)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Lecanoromycetes (Lecanoromycetes)
Order	Didelphimorphia (Didelphimorphia)	Peltigerales (Peltigerales)
Family	Didelphidae	Lobariaceae
Genus	Thylamys	Pseudocyphellaria
Species	Thylamys elegans	Pseudocyphellaria lacerata

Conservation Status

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

Ragged Pseudocyphellaria

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Ragged Pseudocyphellaria

Habitat

Native to Europe, inhabiting ecosystems characteristic of the region.

Range

Distributed across Norway and Portugal.