Oriental House Rat vs scentless mayweed

Rattus tanezumi compared with Tripleurospermum maritimum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	scentless mayweed
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	Tripleurospermum
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Tripleurospermum maritimum

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

scentless mayweed

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	scentless mayweed
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).

scentless mayweed

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.