Oriental House Rat vs sola pith

Rattus tanezumi compared with Aeschynomene afraspera

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	sola pith
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Fabaceae
Genus	Rattus	Aeschynomene
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Aeschynomene afraspera

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

sola pith

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	sola pith
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).

sola pith

Habitat

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