Australian Swamp Rat (species: Rattus lutreolus) in Broadwater NP (Gaia Guide)
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Rattus lutreolus
Australian Swamp Rat


©Adrian Tritschler: Australian Swamp Rat (Rattus lutreolus)

©Doug Beckers: Australian Swamp Rat (Rattus lutreolus)

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Rodentia
Family Muridae
Genus Rattus
Species Rattus lutreolus
Status least concern

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Distinguishing features

Distinguishing features still need to be specified.

Size

  • Averaging 16 cm (Body length)
  • Averaging 27 cm (Body and tail length)

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Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

Distribution and habitat preferences

It occurs around the coast of south and eastern Australia. It occurs in lowland country from Fraser Island down the coast of New South Wales and Victoria to the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia. A subspecies, velutinus, occurs in Tasmania, and another subspecies, lacus, lives in isolated patches of high altitude rainforest near Atherton, Queensland.

They live in dense, wet, low vegetation. (Wikipedia)

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