Oriental House Rat vs pliant lettuce

Rattus tanezumi compared with Lactuca viminea

Key Differences

• Oriental House Rat is Least Concern while pliant lettuce is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	pliant lettuce
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Asterales (Daisies & Sunflowers)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Asteraceae (Daisy Family)
Genus	Rattus	Lactuca
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Lactuca viminea

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

pliant lettuce

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	pliant lettuce
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).

pliant lettuce

Habitat

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