Oriental House Rat vs Slender centaury

Rattus tanezumi compared with Centaurium tenuiflorum

Key Differences

• Oriental House Rat is Least Concern while Slender centaury is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	Slender centaury
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Gentianales (Gentianales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Gentianaceae
Genus	Rattus	Centaurium
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Centaurium tenuiflorum

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Slender centaury

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	Slender centaury
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).

Slender centaury

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Australia, Japan, Portugal, and United States.