False Oat-Grass Smut vs Peninsular Pocket Mouse

Urocystis avenae-elatioris compared with Chaetodipus rudinoris

Key Differences

• False Oat-Grass Smut is Not Evaluated while Peninsular Pocket Mouse is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	False Oat-Grass Smut	Peninsular Pocket Mouse
Kingdom	Fungi (Fungi)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Ustilaginomycetes (Ustilaginomycetes)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Urocystidales (Urocystidales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Urocystidaceae	Heteromyidae
Genus	Urocystis	Chaetodipus
Species	Urocystis avenae-elatioris	Chaetodipus rudinoris

Conservation Status

False Oat-Grass Smut

NE — Not Evaluated

Peninsular Pocket Mouse

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	False Oat-Grass Smut	Peninsular Pocket Mouse
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

False Oat-Grass Smut

Peninsular Pocket Mouse

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.