Species profile—Melomys burtoni (grassland melomys)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Muridae (rats and mice) → Melomys burtoni (grassland melomys)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Muridae (rats and mice)
- Scientific name
- Melomys burtoni (Ramsay, 1887)
- Common name
- grassland melomys
- WildNet taxon ID
- 772
- Synonym(s)
- Melomys australis
Melomys murinus
Melomys mixtus
Melomys melicus
Melomys littoralis
Melomys callopes - Alternate name(s)
- small mosaic-tailed 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=772
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.