Grass-Leaf Mud-Plantain vs Oriental House Rat

Heteranthera dubia compared with Rattus tanezumi

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Grass-Leaf Mud-Plantain	Oriental House Rat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Commelinales (Commelinales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Pontederiaceae	Muridae (Mice & Rats)
Genus	Heteranthera	Rattus
Species	Heteranthera dubia	Rattus tanezumi

Conservation Status

Grass-Leaf Mud-Plantain

LC — Least Concern

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Grass-Leaf Mud-Plantain	Oriental House Rat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Grass-Leaf Mud-Plantain

Habitat

Typically found in grasslands, wetlands, forests, and cultivated landscapes.

Range

Distributed across Canada and United States.

Oriental House Rat

Habitat

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

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa), Asia (Philippines, Taiwan), and Oceania and the Pacific (Kiribati).