Oriental House Rat vs rusty lyonia

Rattus tanezumi compared with Lyonia ferruginea

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	rusty lyonia
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Ericales (Ericales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Ericaceae
Genus	Rattus	Lyonia
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Lyonia ferruginea

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

rusty lyonia

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	rusty lyonia
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).

rusty lyonia

Habitat

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