Species Rattus lutreolus (J.E. Gray, 1841)
Swamp Rat
Generic Combinations
- Rattus lutreolus (J.E. Gray, 1841).
Introduction
Mahoney (1988: 184) listed synonyms, rather than subspecies.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Kangaroo Is.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Queensland: NE coastal
- South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
- Tasmania
- Victoria: SE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Arthropod-feeder, burrower, closed forest, coastal, folivore, granivore, noctidiurnal, open heath, predator, subtropical, terrestrial, territorial.
General References
Baverstock, P.R., Watts, C.H.S., Adams, M. & Cole, S.R. 1981. Genetical relationships among Australian rodents (Muridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 289-303
Baverstock, P.R., Watts, C.H.S., Hogarth, J.T., Robinson, A.C. & Robinson, J.F. 1977. Chromosome evolution in Australian rodents II. The Rattus Group. Chromosoma (Berlin) 61: 227-241
Bezzobs, T. & Sanson, G. 1997. The effects of plant and tooth structure on intake and digestibility in two small mammalian herbivores. Physiological Zoology 70: 338-351
Braithwaite, R.W. 1980. The ecology of Rattus lutreolus II. Reproductive tactics. Australian Wildlife Research 7: 53-62
Braithwaite, R.W. 1980. The ecology of Rattus lutreolus III. The rise and fall of a commensal population. Australian Wildlife Research 7: 199-215
Braithwaite, R.W. 1982. Small marginal groups of Rattus lutreolus in good and poor habitat. Journal of Zoology, London 198: 529-532
Braithwaite, R.W. & Lee, A.K. 1979. The ecology of Rattus lutreolus I. A Victorian heathland population. Australian Wildlife Research 6: 173-189
Breed, W.J. & Sarafis, V. 1979. On the phylogenetic significance of spermatozoal morphology and male reproductive tract anatomy in Australian rodents. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 103: 127-135
Catling, P.C. 1986. Rattus lutreolus, colonizer of heathland after fire in the absence of Pseudomys species. Australian Wildlife Research 13: 127-139
Cheal, D.C. 1987. The diets and dietary preferences of Rattus fuscipes and Rattus lutreolus at Walkerville in Victoria. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 35-44
Claridge, A.W. & May, T.W. 1994. Mycophagy among Australian mammals. Australian Journal of Ecology 19: 251-275
Fox, B.J. 1979. Growth and development of Rattus lutreolus (Rodentia: Muridae) in the laboratory. Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 945-957
Fox, B.J., Taylor, J.E. & Thompson, P.T. 2003. Experimental manipulation of habitat structure: a retrogression of the small mammal succession. Journal of Animal Ecology 72: 927-940
Fox, B.J. & Murray, J.D. 1979. Laboratory hybridization of Australian Rattus fuscipes and Rattus lutreolus and its karyotypic confirmation. Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 691-698
Haering, R. & Fox, B.J. 1995. Habitat utilization patterns of sympatric populations of Pseudomys gracilicaudatus and Rattus lutreolus in coastal heathland: a multivariate analysis. Australian Journal of Ecology 20: 427-441
Higgs, P. & Fox, B.J. 1993. Interspecific competition: A mechanism for rodent succession after fire in a wet heathland. Australian Journal of Ecology 18: 193-201
Lunney, D. 1995. Swamp Rat Rattus lutreolus. pp. 655-657 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
Luo, J., Monamy, V. & Fox, B.J. 1998. Competition between two Australian rodent species - a regression analysis. Journal of Mammalogy 79: 962-971
Luo, J. & Fox, B.J. 1996. Seasonal and successional dietary shifts of two sympatric rodents in coastal heathland: A possible mechanism for coexistence. Australian Journal of Ecology 21: 121-132
Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988] [184]
Maitz, W.E. & Dickman, C.R. 2001. Competition and habitat use in native Australian Rattus: is competition intense, or important? Oecologia 128: 526-538
Mallick, S.A. 1992. Urine-marking in three species of Rattus. Wildlife Research 19: 89-93
Monamy, V. 1995. Ecophysiology of a wild-living population of the velvet-furred rat, Rattus lutreolus velutinus (Rodentia: Muridae), in Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology 43: 583-600
Monamy, V. 1995. Population dynamics of, and habitat use by, Australian native rodents in wet sclerophyll forest, Tasmania. I. Rattus lutreolus velutinus. Wildlife Research 22: 647-660
Monamy, V. 1997. Sexual differences in habitat use by Rattus lutreolus (Rodentia: Muridae): The emergence of patterns in native rodent community structure. Australian Mammalogy 20: 43-48
Monomy, V. 1996. Are capture rates of free-living velvet-furred rats, Rattus lutreolus velutinus (Rodentia: Muridae) influenced by residual conspecific odour? Australian Mammalogy 19: 53-54
Monomy, V. & Fox, B.J. 2000. Small succession is determined by vegetation density rather than time elapsed since disturbance. Austral Ecology 25: 580-587
Morris, D.W., Fox, B.J., Luo, J. & Monomy, V. 2000. Habitat-dependent competition and the co-existence of Australian heathland rodents. Oikos 91: 294-306
Morrissey, B.L. & Breed, W.G. 1982. Variation in external morphology of the glans penis of Australian native rodents. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 495-502
Norton, T.W. 1987. The ecology of small mammals in north-eastern Tasmania II. Pseudomys novaehollandiae and the introduced Mus Musculus. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 435-441
Norton, T.W. 1987. The effect of trap placement on trapping success of Rattus lutreolus velutinus (Thomas)(Muridae: Rodentia) in northeast Tasmania. Journal of Mammalogy 68: 617-641
Taylor, J.M. & Horner, B.E. 1973. Reproductive characteristics of wild native Australian Rattus (Rodentia: Muridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 21: 437-475
Taylor, J.M. & Horner, B.E. 1973. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 98. Systematics of native Australian Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150: 1-130
Thompson, P. & Fox, B.J. 1993. Asymmetric competition in Australian heathland rodents: a reciprocal removal experiment demonstrating the influence of size-class structure. Oikos 67: 264-278
Watts, C.H.S. 1982. The husbandry of Australian Rattus. pp. 177-179 in Evans, D.D. (ed.). The Management of Australian Mammals in Captivity. Proceedings of the Scientific Meeting of the Australian Mammal Society, Healesville, Victoria, February 1979. Melbourne : Zoological Board of Victoria 194 pp.
Common Name References
ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Swamp Rat)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 04-Feb-2023 | 10-Dec-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 10-Dec-2010 | 10-Dec-2010 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |