Rattus leucopus

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Sumber: Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

Distribution: Australia, Queensland: one population ranges from the tip of Cape York south down E side of the peninsula to vicinity of Coen, another from region of Cooktown south along the coast to Tully; all records are east of the Great Dividing Range (Moore and Leung, 1995; Taylor and Horner, 1973; Watts and Aslin, 1981). New Guinea: widespread in lowlands south of Central Cordillera, in N and S lowland regions fringing the Owen Stanley Range in E Papua New Guinea (Flannery, 1995 a; Taylor et al., 1982: 232); also Wokam Isl in the Aru Isls (Flannery, 1995 b). Altitudinal range, sea level to 1200 m (Flannery, 1995 a).

Sumber: Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Queensland; one population ranges from the tip of Cape York south down the E side of the Peninsula to the vicinity of Coen, another from the region of Cooktown south along the coast to Tully; all records are east of the Great Dividing Range (see maps in Taylor and Horner, 1973: 43; Watts and Aslin, 1981). New Guinea; widespread in lowlands south of Central Cordillera, and in N and S lowland regions fringing the Owen Stanley Range (see map in Taylor et al., 1982: 232).

Sumber: Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

DISTRIBUTION: N. Queensland (Australia); New Guinea.

Sumber: Order Rodentia (Part 5)

Habitat. Tropical moist forest, gallery forest, rural gardens, and secondary forest from sea level to elevations of ¢. 1200 m. In forest fragments, subspecies cooktownensis is the most common or only species of Rattus in its distribution, but in relatively disturbed areas, the Australian Bush Rat subspecies coracius is dominant.

Sumber: Muridae

Movements, Home range and Social organization. Densities of Cape York Rats are generally low in the northern subspecies but can be high for other subspecies. Populations fluctuate relative to food availability, although populations are relatively stable and do not fluctuate much because food sources are relatively stable year-round in Australia. In one study, vocalizations tended to be expressed in pulses at low frequency.

Sumber: Muridae