Hard Alectryon vs Oriental House Rat

Alectryon subdentatus compared with Rattus tanezumi

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Hard Alectryon	Oriental House Rat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Sapindales (Sapindales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Sapindaceae	Muridae (Mice & Rats)
Genus	Alectryon	Rattus
Species	Alectryon subdentatus	Rattus tanezumi

Conservation Status

Hard Alectryon

LC — Least Concern

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Hard Alectryon	Oriental House Rat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Hard Alectryon

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

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).