Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum vs Silver Lime

Thylamys elegans compared with Tilia tomentosa

Key Differences

• Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum is Least Concern while Silver Lime is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	Silver Lime
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	Tilia
Species	Thylamys elegans	Tilia tomentosa

Conservation Status

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

Silver Lime

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Silver Lime

Habitat

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

Range

Found across Europe (15 countries) and North America (Canada).