Bush rat: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Bush rat Rattus fuscipes Least concern

Where the bush rat lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Recorded in (GBIF)Representative wild record

Pin and shaded countries are approximate. The pin is a representative wild sighting (a central record among 152,800 open-licence GBIF records), not an official range. Method · Records on GBIF · See mice, rats & other rodents on the world map

Scientific name	Rattus fuscipes
Group	Mice, rats & other rodents
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Oceania
Mass	4 g (birth weight)
Class	Mammal
Order	Rodentia
Family	Muridae

Where does the bush rat live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the bush rat in 1 country or territory across Oceania.

Australia

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a bush rat?

Wikidata records the following for the bush rat: mass 4 g (birth weight).

Is the bush rat endangered?

The bush rat’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the bush rat?

The bush rat (Rattus fuscipes) is a mammal in the order Rodentia and the family Muridae, genus Rattus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the bush rat

The bush rat or Australian bush rat (Rattus fuscipes) is a small Australian nocturnal animal. It is an omnivore and one of the most common indigenous species of rat on the continent, found in many heathland areas of Victoria and New South Wales.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Bush rat (revision 1358238903), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q28970 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).