Oriental House Rat vs silk-tassel

Rattus tanezumi compared with Garrya elliptica

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	silk-tassel
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Garryales (Garryales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Garryaceae
Genus	Rattus	Garrya
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Garrya elliptica

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

silk-tassel

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	silk-tassel
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).

silk-tassel

Habitat

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