Oriental House Rat vs Trimen's Dotted Border

Rattus tanezumi compared with Mylothris trimenia

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	Trimen's Dotted Border
Kingdom same	Animalia (Animals)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Insecta (Insects)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Pieridae
Genus	Rattus	Mylothris
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Mylothris trimenia

Evolutionary Relationship

Oriental House Rat and Trimen's Dotted Border share a common ancestor at the Kingdom level: Animalia. (Animals)

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Trimen's Dotted Border

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	Trimen's Dotted Border
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).

Trimen's Dotted Border

Habitat

Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.