Rattus rattus
Black Rat at Yarralumla, ACT
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| Rattus rattus | MichaelMulvaney | 18 Jan 2022 | |
| Unverified | ConBoekel | 17 Jan 2022 |
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User's notes
Found freshly dead on track. Tail damaged so presumably died in some sort of violent encounter.
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17 Jan 2022
ID as Black Rat, rather than Brown Rat or Bush Rat, based on: pointed muzzle, white underside, no elongated posthallucal pad, longish tail and longish ears. More confident ID as R. rattus would be possible if tail could be seen to be clearly longer than head and body and if ear lobe could be pressed forward past the mid-point of the eye.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.108278-35.296498
- Altitude 564.3m
- Maps Lake Burley Griffin West Blue Gum Point to Attunga Bay
- Places Yarralumla, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 16 Jan 2022 10:31 AM Recorded on
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Species information
- Rattus rattus Scientific name
- Black Rat Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1019.83m Recorded at altitude
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