#0471 · 🦊 mammals

Australian Bush Rat

Rattus fuscipes

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The bush rat or Australian bush rat ( Rattus fuscipes ) is a small Australian nocturnal animal. It is an omnivore and one of the most common indigenous species of rat on the continent, found in many heathland areas of Victoria and New South Wales.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,073iNaturalist observations
weight 4 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
2,073 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 4 g.
Scientifically named by George Robert Waterhouse in 1839 (187 years ago).