Oriental House Rat vs winged prickly-ash

Rattus tanezumi compared with Zanthoxylum armatum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	winged prickly-ash
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Sapindales (Sapindales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Rutaceae
Genus	Rattus	Zanthoxylum
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Zanthoxylum armatum

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

winged prickly-ash

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	winged prickly-ash
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).

winged prickly-ash

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Italy and Taiwan.

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 1 countries:

🇹🇼 Taiwan