Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum vs sharp-wing monkey-flower

Thylamys elegans compared with Mimulus alatus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	sharp-wing monkey-flower
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Didelphimorphia (Didelphimorphia)	Lamiales (Lamiales)
Family	Didelphidae	Phrymaceae
Genus	Thylamys	Mimulus
Species	Thylamys elegans	Mimulus alatus

Conservation Status

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

sharp-wing monkey-flower

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	sharp-wing monkey-flower
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

sharp-wing monkey-flower

Habitat

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

Range

Found in Canada.