List of rodents of Australia - Wikipedia
The black rat, brown rat, Pacific rat and house mouse were accidentally introduced to Australia with European settlement, as was a small population of the five-lined palm squirrel near Perth. …
7 clever Aussie native rodents - Australian Geographic
2018年4月9日 · Australia’s native rats and mice are as worthy of love and attention as the continent’s better-known marsupials. Here, we list some of our favourites. Spinifex hopping …
House Mouse - The Australian Museum
Besides humans, the House Mouse is probably one of the most successful living mammals, with a widespread distribution throughout Australia and the world. The distinguishing features of the …
Hopping mouse - Wikipedia
A hopping mouse is any of about ten different Australian native mice in the genus Notomys. They are rodents, not marsupials, and their ancestors are thought to have arrived from Asia about 5 …
Two New Species of Native Mice Discovered in Australia
2024年2月22日 · The little native mouse (Pseudomys delicatulus), also known as the delicate mouse, was previously thought to be a single species spanning a massive stretch of the …
Resurrected: native Australian mouse back from extinction
2021年6月29日 · Researchers have found a native Australian mouse from Shark Bay, WA, is the same species as the previously extinct Gould's Mouse that disappeared from Victoria and …
Of Mice and ‘Convicts’: Origin of the Australian House Mouse,
The house mouse, Mus musculus, is one of the most ubiquitous invasive species worldwide and in Australia is particularly common and widespread, but where it originally came from is still …
Discovering Australia's remarkable rodents
From the Rakali, an otter-like rodent with webbed feet, to tiny desert-dwelling hopping mice that weigh no more than a golf ball and move like miniature kangaroos, Australian native rodents …
Native Mice and Rats - CSIRO Publishing
There are about 60 living species – all within the subfamily Murinae – representing around 25 per cent of all species of Australian mammals. They range in size from the very small delicate …
Australian little native mouse actually 3 species in a trench coat
2024年2月24日 · Australia can add two new species to its native rodent roster. Researchers identified that Pseudomys delicatulus, often called delicate or little native mouse (or among the …