Oriental House Rat vs short-ray fleabane

Rattus tanezumi compared with Erigeron lonchophyllus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	short-ray fleabane
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	Erigeron
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Erigeron lonchophyllus

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

short-ray fleabane

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	short-ray fleabane
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).

short-ray fleabane

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Canada and Norway.