Rattus or Mastacomys sp. (genus)

An unidentified rat species at Shark Creek, NSW

Request use of media

Identification history

	Rattus or Mastacomys sp. (genus)	29 Oct 2024	MichaelBedingfield
	Unverified	27 Oct 2024	Topwood

Identify this sighting

Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.

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.

Topwood wrote:

29 Oct 2024

ok i will get on to that, thank you Michael.

Please Login or Register to comment.

Location information

Places Shark Creek, NSW

Sighting information

1 Abundance
Topwood Recorded by
Collections
Mammals Rodents Rats Topwood New South Wales North Coast NatureMapr

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

825,138 sightings of 22,611 species from 14,243 members
CCA 3.0 | privacy

NatureMapr is developed and subsidised by at3am IT Pty Ltd and is proudly Australian made

Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

South Australia

Victoria

Tasmania