Floating Fern vs Large Short-tailed Rat

Salvinia nymphellula compared with Brachyuromys ramirohitra

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Floating Fern	Large Short-tailed Rat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Tracheophyta	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Salviniales (Salviniales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Salviniaceae	Nesomyidae
Genus	Salvinia	Brachyuromys
Species	Salvinia nymphellula	Brachyuromys ramirohitra

Conservation Status

Floating Fern

LC — Least Concern

Large Short-tailed Rat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Floating Fern	Large Short-tailed Rat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Floating Fern

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Cote d'Ivoire and Malawi.

Large Short-tailed Rat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.