Great Balkhan Brush-tailed Mouse vs

Calomyscus mystax compared with Postia lowei

Key Differences

• Great Balkhan Brush-tailed Mouse is Least Concern while is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Great Balkhan Brush-tailed Mouse
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Fungi (Fungi)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Agaricomycetes (Mushrooms)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Polyporales (Polyporales)
Family	Calomyscidae	Dacryobolaceae
Genus	Calomyscus	Postia
Species	Calomyscus mystax	Postia lowei

Conservation Status

Great Balkhan Brush-tailed Mouse

LC — Least Concern

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Great Balkhan Brush-tailed Mouse
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Great Balkhan Brush-tailed Mouse

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Habitat

Typically found in forest floors, decomposing wood, and soil ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Norway, Sweden, and Taiwan.

Postia lowei is a soft, white to cream-colored bracket fungus forming annual, shelf-like fruiting bodies on decaying conifer wood. It inhabits boreal and montane coniferous forests, growing on dead fallen logs and stumps. This brown-rot saprotrophic fungus decomposes the cellulose of conifer wood, leaving characteristic brown cubical rot.