Oriental House Rat vs telinga-potato

Rattus tanezumi compared with Amorphophallus paeoniifolius

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	telinga-potato
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Alismatales (Alismatales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Araceae
Genus	Rattus	Amorphophallus
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Amorphophallus paeoniifolius

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

telinga-potato

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	telinga-potato
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).

telinga-potato

Habitat

Typically found in grasslands, wetlands, forests, and cultivated landscapes.

Range

Distributed across Seychelles, Taiwan, and Tonga.

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 1 countries:

🇹🇼 Taiwan