Difference between Wood Rat and Woodrat

WOOD RAT vs WOODRAT: NOUN

Any species of Neotoma, including large woodland rats of the United States, etc., of the family Nuridæ, subfamily Murinæ, and section Sigmodontes, such as the Florida wood-rat, N. floridana; the Rocky Mountain wood-rat, N. cinerea; the California wood-rat, N. fuscipes; the Texas wood-rat, N. micropus; the ferrugineous wood-rat of Mexico and Central America, N. ferruginea. See pack-rat (under rat), and cut under Neotoma.
Any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur gray above and white below with well-furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)

Perognathus, Microsthene, Jird, Heteromyidae, Sand rat, Gerbillinae, Utia, Water vole, Pocket rat, Mountain beaver, Chinchilla rat, Rodent, Abrocome, Pocket mouse, Woodrat

Dickcissel, Phalaropes, Hellbender, Rusty blackbird, Spruce grouse, Leopard frog, Massasauga, Venomous lizard, Quoll, Meadow vole, Garter snake, Pine marten, Peromyscus, Pocket gopher, Wood rat

Perognathus, Microsthene, Jird, Heteromyidae, Sand rat, Gerbillinae, Utia, Water vole, Pocket rat, Mountain beaver, Chinchilla rat, Rodent, Abrocome, Pocket mouse, Woodrat

Dickcissel, Phalaropes, Hellbender, Rusty blackbird, Spruce grouse, Leopard frog, Massasauga, Venomous lizard, Quoll, Meadow vole, Garter snake, Pine marten, Peromyscus, Pocket gopher, Wood rat

Includes recovery plans for threatened and endangered species in the San Joaquin Valley including San Joaquin kit fox, riparian brush rabbit and riparian woodrat.
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Exceptions to this rule include the eastern woodrat and rice rat, which are endangered species in Illinois.
The Key Largo Woodrat lives mostly in trees and shelters with overhangs.