Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum vs truncated screw moss

Thylamys elegans compared with Tortula truncata

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	truncated screw moss
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Bryophyta
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Bryopsida (Bryopsida)
Order	Didelphimorphia (Didelphimorphia)	Pottiales (Pottiales)
Family	Didelphidae	Pottiaceae
Genus	Thylamys	Tortula
Species	Thylamys elegans	Tortula truncata

Conservation Status

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

LC — Least Concern

truncated screw moss

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum	truncated screw moss
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

truncated screw moss

Habitat

Native to Asia and Europe and North America, inhabiting ecosystems characteristic of the region.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Taiwan), Europe (5 countries), and North America (United States).