1 House Mouse at Tennent, ACT
Identification history
| Mus musculus | 11 Jun 2019 | ChrisM | ||
| Mus musculus | 8 Jun 2019 | DonFletcher | ||
| Unidentified | 8 Jun 2019 | gisela |
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User's notes
A species of Pseudomys? Seen on Booroomba rocks in bright sunlight.
2 comments
DonFletcher
wrote:
9 Jun 2019
Hi Gisela. Some photos of small mammals are difficult because the key characteristics are not in photos, such as the notched incisors and mousy smell of a house mouse. And scale. Juveniles are more difficult still, which is what this might be. At first sight this looks like either a house mouse or Pseudomys novaehollandiae then I suspected it may be a juvenile rat, either a Bush Rat or a Black Rat. The tails of Pseudomys are lighter below, and this does not seem to have that, but it does have large ears. My guess is House Mouse. I will ask some other people to help.
DonFletcher
wrote:
12 Jun 2019
Email replies from Linda Broom and Will Osborne agree this is a house mouse not a juvenile rat. DF 11/6/19.
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.991958-35.556967
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Tennent, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 7 Jun 2019 01:00 PM Recorded on
- gisela Recorded by
Species information
- Mus musculus Scientific name
- House Mouse Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 719.6m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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