Enveloping Crust vs Oriental House Rat

Sebacina incrustans compared with Rattus tanezumi

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Enveloping Crust	Oriental House Rat
Kingdom	Fungi (Fungi)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Agaricomycetes (Mushrooms)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Sebacinales (Sebacinales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Sebacinaceae	Muridae (Mice & Rats)
Genus	Sebacina	Rattus
Species	Sebacina incrustans	Rattus tanezumi

Conservation Status

Enveloping Crust

LC — Least Concern

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Enveloping Crust	Oriental House Rat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Enveloping Crust

Habitat

Typically found in forest floors, decomposing wood, and soil ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and United States.

Oriental House Rat

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Oceanian biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa), Asia (Philippines, Taiwan), and Oceania and the Pacific (Kiribati).