Oriental House Rat vs Rough Bedstraw

Rattus tanezumi compared with Galium asprellum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	Rough Bedstraw
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Gentianales (Gentianales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Rubiaceae
Genus	Rattus	Galium
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Galium asprellum

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Rough Bedstraw

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	Rough Bedstraw
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).

Rough Bedstraw

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Canada and United States.