Oriental House Rat vs red-cedar

Rattus tanezumi compared with Trichilia hirta

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	red-cedar
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Sapindales (Sapindales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Meliaceae
Genus	Rattus	Trichilia
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Trichilia hirta

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

red-cedar

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	red-cedar
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).

red-cedar

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba.