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| 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.
