An unidentified rat species at Shark Creek, NSW
Identification history
| Rattus or Mastacomys sp. (genus) | 29 Oct 2024 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Unidentified | 27 Oct 2024 | Topwood |
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User's notes
Hoping its a Bush rat?
2 comments
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
29 Oct 2024
Rodents are hard to ID, since many are very similar in appearance. Closer photos are necessary for things such as tail length, hairs on tails, ear shape, colour, etc.
Location information
- Places Shark Creek, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 26 Oct 2024 03:44 AM Recorded on
- Topwood Recorded by
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Mammals Rodents Rats Topwood
Additional information
- Unknown Gender
Species information
- Rattus or Mastacomys sp. (genus) Scientific name
- An unidentified rat species Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Cosmopolitan
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 998m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes
