Greyling Bracket vs Oriental House Rat

Postia tephroleuca compared with Rattus tanezumi

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Greyling Bracket	Oriental House Rat
Kingdom	Fungi (Fungi)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Agaricomycetes (Mushrooms)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Polyporales (Polyporales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Dacryobolaceae	Muridae (Mice & Rats)
Genus	Postia	Rattus
Species	Postia tephroleuca	Rattus tanezumi

Conservation Status

Greyling Bracket

LC — Least Concern

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Greyling Bracket	Oriental House Rat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Greyling Bracket

Habitat

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

Range

Found across Europe (5 countries) and South America (Brazil).

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).