Lesser Fat-tailed Jerboa vs

Pygeretmus platyurus compared with Physarum viride

Key Differences

• Lesser Fat-tailed Jerboa is Least Concern while is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Lesser Fat-tailed Jerboa
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Protozoa (protozoa)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Mycetozoa
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Myxomycetes (Myxomycetes)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Physarales (Physarales)
Family	Dipodidae	Physaraceae
Genus	Pygeretmus	Physarum
Species	Pygeretmus platyurus	Physarum viride

Conservation Status

Lesser Fat-tailed Jerboa

LC — Least Concern

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Lesser Fat-tailed Jerboa
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Lesser Fat-tailed Jerboa

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.