Oriental House Rat vs Puckout

Rattus tanezumi compared with Coccoloba microstachya

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	Puckout
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Polygonaceae
Genus	Rattus	Coccoloba
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Coccoloba microstachya

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Puckout

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	Puckout
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).

Puckout

Habitat

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