fat duckweed vs Mound-building Mouse

Lemna gibba compared with Mus spicilegus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	fat duckweed	Mound-building Mouse
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Alismatales (Alismatales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Araceae	Muridae (Mice & Rats)
Genus	Lemna	Mus (House Mice)
Species	Lemna gibba	Mus spicilegus

Conservation Status

fat duckweed

LC — Least Concern

Mound-building Mouse

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	fat duckweed	Mound-building Mouse
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).

Mound-building Mouse

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.