False Oat-Grass Smut vs Oriental House Rat

Urocystis avenae-elatioris compared with Rattus tanezumi

Key Differences

• False Oat-Grass Smut is Not Evaluated while Oriental House Rat is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	False Oat-Grass Smut	Oriental House Rat
Kingdom	Fungi (Fungi)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Ustilaginomycetes (Ustilaginomycetes)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Urocystidales (Urocystidales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Urocystidaceae	Muridae (Mice & Rats)
Genus	Urocystis	Rattus
Species	Urocystis avenae-elatioris	Rattus tanezumi

Conservation Status

False Oat-Grass Smut

NE — Not Evaluated

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	False Oat-Grass Smut	Oriental House Rat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

False Oat-Grass Smut

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).