five-leaf crotalaria vs Giant Jumping Rat

Crotalaria quinquefolia compared with Hypogeomys antimena

Key Differences

• five-leaf crotalaria is Least Concern while Giant Jumping Rat is Critically Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	five-leaf crotalaria	Giant Jumping Rat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Fabaceae	Nesomyidae
Genus	Crotalaria	Hypogeomys
Species	Crotalaria quinquefolia	Hypogeomys antimena

Conservation Status

five-leaf crotalaria

LC — Least Concern

Giant Jumping Rat

CR — Critically Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	five-leaf crotalaria	Giant Jumping Rat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

five-leaf crotalaria

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Australasia biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Japan, Singapore), Oceania and the Pacific (5 countries), and South America (Guyana).

Giant Jumping Rat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.