Hotson’s Brush-tailed Mouse vs

Calomyscus hotsoni compared with Physarum viride

Key Differences

• Hotson’s Brush-tailed Mouse is Least Concern while is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Hotson’s Brush-tailed Mouse
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Protozoa (protozoa)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Mycetozoa
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Myxomycetes (Myxomycetes)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Physarales (Physarales)
Family	Calomyscidae	Physaraceae
Genus	Calomyscus	Physarum
Species	Calomyscus hotsoni	Physarum viride

Conservation Status

Hotson’s Brush-tailed Mouse

LC — Least Concern

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Hotson’s Brush-tailed Mouse
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Hotson’s Brush-tailed Mouse

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Habitat

Native to Asia and Europe and North America, inhabiting ecosystems characteristic of the region.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Taiwan), Europe (Belgium, Norway, Sweden), North America (United States), and South America (Brazil).

Physarum viride is a vibrantly coloured myxomycete (slime mould) producing small, bright yellow-green sporangia on decaying organic matter including dead wood, leaves, and litter in forest habitats. Like all Physarum species, it spends part of its life as a multinucleate plasmodium that creeps across substrates to engulf food particles. This species is found in moist woodlands across temperate and tropical zones.