Oriental House Rat vs sharp-wing monkey-flower

Rattus tanezumi compared with Mimulus alatus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	sharp-wing monkey-flower
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Lamiales (Lamiales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Phrymaceae
Genus	Rattus	Mimulus
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Mimulus alatus

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

sharp-wing monkey-flower

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	sharp-wing monkey-flower
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).

sharp-wing monkey-flower

Habitat

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

Range

Found in Canada.