Oriental House Rat vs white wattling

Rattus tanezumi compared with Eugenia foetida

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	white wattling
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)	Myrtaceae
Genus	Rattus	Eugenia
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Eugenia foetida

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

white wattling

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	white wattling
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).

white wattling

Habitat

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