Broad-toothed Rat at Kosciuszko National Park
Identification history
| Mastacomys fuscus | 18 Mar 2024 | DonFletcher | ||
| Pseudomys fumeus | 6 Mar 2024 | AshW |
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User's notes
Is this a smoky mouse? Body ~10cm long, grey tail similar length, emerging from a grassy burrow by the upper Tumut River, inquisitive (came up to my boots as I was eating lunch).
2 comments
DonFletcher
wrote:
18 Mar 2024
Hi Ash W, lucky you. One of the most appealing local small mammals, Tooarrana or Broad Toothed Mouse, formerly called Broad Toothed Rat.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.393164-36.044811
- Maps Kosciuszko National Park
- Places Jagungal Wilderness, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 4 Mar 2024 01:41 PM Recorded on
- AshW Recorded by
Additional information
- Unknown Gender
- Breeding behaviour
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Mastacomys fuscus Scientific name
- Broad-toothed Rat Common name
- Sensitive
- Very rare / threatened
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 22.1m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Confirmed by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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