Subspecies Rattus lutreolus lutreolus (J.E. Gray, 1841)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mus lutreola Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia in Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. pp. 397-414 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [398-399, 404, 409-410, 414].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 41.1258 ♂ skin & skull, Moscheto (as Mosquito) Is., Hunter River, NSW.
• Mus vellerosus Gray, J.E. 1847. Description of a new rat from South Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1847: 5-6 [publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [438]] [5].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 47.3.1.2 ♂ skin & skull, between the Murray River, SA and Glenelg River, VIC (as in campis Australiasianis inter fluvios Murray et Glenelg).
• Rattus lutreolus cambricus Troughton, E. le G. 1937. On new forms of the Eastern Swamp Rat, and the relationship of Mastacomys. The Australian Zoologist 8: 281-286 [283].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM M3192 ♂ skin & skull, Booloombayt, Myall Lakes District, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, burrower, closed forest, coastal, folivore, granivore, noctidiurnal, open heath, predator, subtropical, terrestrial, territorial.

History of changes