Black Rat at Amaroo, ACT
Identification history
| Rattus rattus | 22 Jun 2025 | DonFletcher | ||
| Unverified | 22 Jun 2025 | DallasCheryl |
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User's notes
Rodent appearance, body approx 120mm, seems to have shorter nose than rat, long thin tail.
1 comment
DonFletcher
wrote:
22 Jun 2025
Hi @DallasCheryl , thanks for the record. Small mammals are hard to ID from photos and those photos, well let us say I have seen sharper, closer, clearer ones from every possible angle. Its long tail, long ears, and pale fur on the upperside of its feet make it looks like the non-native Rattus rattus but the other factor I'm going from is that no other Rattus has ever been found in the Canberra suburbs to my knowledge. We dont have Melomys down here. We have Rattus fuscipes well out in the bush away from the suburbs, Mastacomys fuscus high up in Namadgi and Hydromys chrysogaster in the lakes and rivers.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.137041-35.172134
- Maps Yerrabi Pond
- Places Amaroo, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 22 Jun 2025 01:02 PM Recorded on
- DallasCheryl Recorded by
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Collections
DallasCheryl NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Rats Rodents Mammals Rattus rattus
Species information
- Rattus rattus Scientific name
- Black Rat Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1019.83m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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