Oriental House Rat vs Sea Garlic

Rattus tanezumi compared with Allium commutatum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	Sea Garlic
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (plantas)
Phylum	Chordata (cordados)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (mamíferos)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Rodentia (Roedores)	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Amaryllidaceae
Genus	Rattus	Allium
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Allium commutatum

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Sea Garlic

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	Sea Garlic
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).

Sea Garlic

Habitat

Typically found in grasslands, wetlands, forests, and cultivated landscapes.