Tuesday, November 6, 2018

GRASSLAND MELOMY

Photographed on Coburg Peninsula, October 2018

106                             GRASSLAND MELOMY                     Melomys burtoni

AUSTRALIA                     106

Also known as Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat, and locally as Rusty or Rusties.  Abundant in grasslands, sedge lands, cane fields, edges of rainforests, sclerophyll forest and wetland with grassy understorey; in NT and Wa in grassland, riparian vegetation, monsoon forest and mangroves. Nocturnal. Terrestrial but adept climber. 


















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