fat duckweed vs Large Short-tailed Rat

Lemna gibba compared with Brachyuromys ramirohitra

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	fat duckweed	Large Short-tailed Rat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Alismatales (Alismatales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Araceae	Nesomyidae
Genus	Lemna	Brachyuromys
Species	Lemna gibba	Brachyuromys ramirohitra

Conservation Status

fat duckweed

LC — Least Concern

Large Short-tailed Rat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	fat duckweed	Large Short-tailed Rat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

fat duckweed

Habitat

Inhabits deserts and xeric shrublands and flooded grasslands and savannas within the Palearctic biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Egypt), Asia (Japan), Europe (6 countries), North America (Canada), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

Large Short-tailed Rat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.