Oriental House Rat vs yellowtop

Rattus tanezumi compared with Flaveria linearis

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	yellowtop
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Asterales (Daisies & Sunflowers)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Asteraceae (Daisy Family)
Genus	Rattus	Flaveria
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Flaveria linearis

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

yellowtop

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	yellowtop
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).

yellowtop

Habitat

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

Range

Distributed across Cuba and Taiwan.

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 1 countries:

🇹🇼 Taiwan