Species profile—Melomys cervinipes (fawn-footed melomys)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Muridae (rats and mice) → Melomys cervinipes (fawn-footed melomys)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Muridae (rats and mice)
- Scientific name
- Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852)
- Common name
- fawn-footed melomys
- WildNet taxon ID
- 759
- Alternate name(s)
- fawn-footed scale-tailed rat
mosaic-tailed rat
large khaki rat - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- 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=759
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.