Oriental House Rat vs Variable Chafer

Rattus tanezumi compared with Gnorimus variabilis

Key Differences

• Oriental House Rat is Least Concern while Variable Chafer is Extinct.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Oriental House Rat	Variable Chafer
Kingdom same	Animalia (Animals)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Chordata (cordados)	Arthropoda (artrópode)
Class	Mammalia (mamíferos)	Insecta (inseto)
Order	Rodentia (Roedores)	Coleoptera (besouro)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Scarabaeidae
Genus	Rattus	Gnorimus
Species	Rattus tanezumi	Gnorimus variabilis

Evolutionary Relationship

Oriental House Rat and Variable Chafer share a common ancestor at the Kingdom level: Animalia. (Animals)

Conservation Status

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Variable Chafer

EX — Extinct

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Oriental House Rat	Variable Chafer
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).

Variable Chafer

Habitat

Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.

Range

Distributed across Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.