List of Australian rodents
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This is a list of Australian rodents. Australia has a large number of indigenous rodents, all from the Family Muridae. The Black Rat, Brown Rat and House Mouse were accidentally introduced to Australia with European settlement. Note: where author and date of original description appears in brackets, this indicates that the describer placed the species in a genus different from the one here assigned (Strahan, 1995).
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[edit] Old endemics
- White-footed Rabbit Rat, Conilurus albipes - extinct
- Brush-tailed Rabbit Rat, Conilurus penicillatus
- Water Rat, Hydromys chrysogaster
- Forrest's Mouse, Leggadina forresti
- Lakeland Downs Mouse, Leggadina lakedownensis
- Lesser Stick-nest Rat, Leporillus apicalis - extinct
- Greater Stick-nest Rat, Leporillus conditor
- Grassland Melomys, Melomys burtoni
- Cape York Melomys, Melomys capensis
- Fawn-footed Melomys, Melomys cervinipes
- Bramble Cay Melomys, Melomys rubicola
- Black-footed Tree-rat, Mesembriomys gouldi
- Golden-backed Tree-rat, Mesembriomys macrurus
- Spinifex Hopping Mouse, Notomys alexis
- Short-tailed Hopping Mouse, Notomys amplus - extinct
- Northern Hopping Mouse, Notomys aquilo
- Fawn Hopping Mouse, Notomys cervinus
- Dusky Hopping Mouse, Notomys fuscus
- Long-tailed Hopping Mouse, Notomys longicaudatus - extinct
- Big-eared Hopping Mouse, Notomys macrotis - extinct
- Mitchell's Hopping Mouse, Notomys mitchelli
- Darling Downs Hopping Mouse, Notomys mordax - extinct
- Great Hopping Mouse, Notomys sp. - extinct
- Prehensile-tailed Rat, Pogonomys mollipilosus
- Ash-grey Mouse, Pseudomys albocinereus
- Silky Mouse, Pseudomys apodemoides
- Plains Rat, Pseudomys australis
- Bolam's Mouse, Pseudomys bolami
- Kakadu Pebble-mound Mouse, Pseudomys calabyi
- Western Pebble-mound Mouse, Pseudomys chapmani
- Delicate Mouse, Pseudomys delicatulus
- Desert Mouse, Pseudomys desertor
- Shark Bay Mouse, Pseudomys fieldi
- Smoky Mouse, Pseudomys fumeus
- Blue-grey Mouse, Pseudomys glaucus - extinct
- Gould's Mouse, Pseudomys gouldi - extinct
- Eastern Chestnut Mouse, Pseudomys gracilicaudatus
- Sandy Inland Mouse, Pseudomys hermannsburgensis
- Long-tailed Mouse, Pseudomys higginsi
- Central Pebble-mound Mouse, Pseudomys johnsoni
- Kimberley Mouse, Pseudomys laborifex
- Western Chestnut Mouse, Pseudomys nanus
- New Holland Mouse, Pseudomys novaehollandiae
- Western Mouse, Pseudomys occidentalis
- Hastings River Mouse, Pseudomys oralis
- Pilliga Mouse, Pseudomys pilligaensis
- Eastern Pebble-mound Mouse, 'Pseudomys patrius
- Heath Mouse, Pseudomys shortridgei
- Giant White-tailed Rat, Uromys caudimaculatus
- Masked White-tailed Rat, Uromys hadrourus
- False Water-rat, Xeromys myoides
- Common Rock-rat, Zyzomys argurus
- Arnhem Land Rock-rat, Zyzomys maini
- Carpentarian Rock-rat, Zyzomys palatalis
- Central Rock-rat, Zyzomys pedunculatus
- Kimberley Rock-rat, Zyzomys woodwardi
[edit] New endemics
- House Mouse, Mus musculus - introduced
- Dusky Rat, Rattus colletti
- Pacific Rat, Rattus exulans - introduced
- Bush Rat, Rattus fuscipes
- Cape York Rat, Rattus leucopus
- Swamp Rat, Rattus lutreolus
- Brown Rat, Rattus norvegicus - introduced
- Black Rat, Rattus rattus) - introduced
- Canefield Rat, Rattus sordidus
- Pale Field Rat, Rattus tunneyi
- Long-haired Rat, Rattus villosissimus
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Strahan, R. ed. 1983. The Australian Museum Complete Book of Australian Mammals. Angus & Robertson ISBN 0-207-14454-0
- Strahan, R. (ed). 1995. The Mammals of Australia, Revised Edition. Reed New Holland, Sydney. ISBN 1-876334-88-6
- Menkhorst, P. (2001). A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia, Oxford University Press, 19-20
