Mexican Harvest Mouse vs Tickclover

Reithrodontomys mexicanus compared with Desmodium incanum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Mexican Harvest Mouse	Tickclover
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Cricetidae	Fabaceae
Genus	Reithrodontomys	Desmodium
Species	Reithrodontomys mexicanus	Desmodium incanum

Conservation Status

Mexican Harvest Mouse

LC — Least Concern

Tickclover

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Mexican Harvest Mouse	Tickclover
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Mexican Harvest Mouse

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Found in Colombia.

Tickclover

Habitat

Inhabits flooded grasslands and savannas within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (10 countries), Asia (Japan), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (12 countries), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).