Oriental House Rat vs screw-pine

Rattus tanezumi compared with Pandanus spiralis

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	screw-pine
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Pandanales (Pandanales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Pandanaceae
Genus	Rattus	Pandanus
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Pandanus spiralis

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

screw-pine

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	screw-pine
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).

screw-pine

Habitat

Typically found in grasslands, wetlands, forests, and cultivated landscapes.