Oriental House Rat vs sugar-plum

Rattus tanezumi compared with Uapaca guineensis

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	sugar-plum
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Malpighiales (Malpighiales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Phyllanthaceae
Genus	Rattus	Uapaca
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Uapaca guineensis

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

sugar-plum

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	sugar-plum
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).

sugar-plum

Habitat

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

Range

Found in Guinea.