Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum vs silk-floss tree

Thylamys elegans compared with Ceiba speciosa

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	silk-floss tree
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Didelphimorphia (Didelphimorphia)	Malvales (Malvales)
Family	Didelphidae	Malvaceae
Genus	Thylamys	Ceiba
Species	Thylamys elegans	Ceiba speciosa

Conservation Status

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

silk-floss tree

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	silk-floss tree
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

silk-floss tree

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Turkey.