Australian swamp rat

Australian swamp rat
Temporal range: Holocene to present
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Rattus
Species:
R. lutreolus
Binomial name
Rattus lutreolus
(Gray, 1841)

The Australian swamp rat (Rattus lutreolus), also known as the eastern swamp rat, is a species of rat native to the coasts of southern and eastern Australia.

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