Oriental House Rat vs shining scabious

Rattus tanezumi compared with Scabiosa lucida

Key Differences

• Oriental House Rat is Least Concern while shining scabious is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	shining scabious
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Dipsacales (Dipsacales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Caprifoliaceae
Genus	Rattus	Scabiosa
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Scabiosa lucida

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

shining scabious

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	shining scabious
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).

shining scabious

Habitat

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

Range

Found in Belgium.