Species profile—Rattus fuscipes (bush rat)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Muridae (rats and mice) → Rattus fuscipes (bush rat)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Muridae (rats and mice)
- Scientific name
- Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839)
- Common name
- bush rat
- WildNet taxon ID
- 741
- Alternate name(s)
- allied rat
southern bush rat - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- Low
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Disease Vector
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=741
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.