Oriental House Rat vs pinbush

Rattus tanezumi compared with Hakea leucoptera

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	pinbush
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Proteales (Proteales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Proteaceae
Genus	Rattus	Hakea
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Hakea leucoptera

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

pinbush

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	pinbush
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).

pinbush

Habitat

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