Oriental House Rat vs yellow saraca

Rattus tanezumi compared with Saraca thaipingensis

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	yellow saraca
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Fabaceae
Genus	Rattus	Saraca
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Saraca thaipingensis

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

yellow saraca

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	yellow saraca
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).

yellow saraca

Habitat

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