Oriental House Rat vs Pacific Mountain-Ash

Rattus tanezumi compared with Sorbus sitchensis

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	Pacific Mountain-Ash
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Rosales (Roses & Allies)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Rosaceae (Rose Family)
Genus	Rattus	Sorbus
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Sorbus sitchensis

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Pacific Mountain-Ash

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	Pacific Mountain-Ash
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

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).

Pacific Mountain-Ash

Habitat

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

Range

Found in United States.