Oriental House Rat vs Tovar Maya

Rattus tanezumi compared with Miconia tovarensis

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	Tovar Maya
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Myrtales (Myrtales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Melastomataceae
Genus	Rattus	Miconia
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Miconia tovarensis

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Tovar Maya

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	Tovar Maya
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).

Tovar Maya

Habitat

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

Range

Found in Colombia.