List of rodents of Australia
This is the list of rodents of Australia. Australia has a large number of indigenous rodents, all from the family Muridae. These are presumed to have arrived within the last 4 million years from Asia. The black rat, brown rat, Pacific rat and house mouse were accidentally introduced to Australia with European settlement, as was a small population of the five-lined palm squirrel near Perth.Old "endemics" *
- White-footed rabbit-rat†, Conilurus albipes - extinct
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat, Conilurus penicillatus
- Rakali, Hydromys chrysogaster
- Forrest's mouse, Leggadina forresti
- Lakeland Downs mouse, Leggadina lakedownensis
- Lesser stick-nest rat†, Leporillus apicalis - extinct
- Greater stick-nest rat, Leporillus conditor
- Broad-toothed mouse, Mastacomys fuscus
- Grassland melomys, Melomys burtoni
- Cape York melomys, Melomys capensis
- Fawn-footed melomys, Melomys cervinipes
- Bramble Cay melomys†, Melomys rubicola - extinct
- Black-footed tree-rat, Mesembriomys gouldi
- Golden-backed tree-rat, Mesembriomys macrurus
- Spinifex hopping mouse, Notomys alexis
- Short-tailed hopping mouse†, Notomys amplus - extinct
- Northern hopping mouse, Notomys aquilo
- Fawn hopping mouse, Notomys cervinus
- Dusky hopping mouse, Notomys fuscus
- Long-tailed hopping mouse†, Notomys longicaudatus - extinct
- Big-eared hopping mouse†, Notomys macrotis - extinct
- Mitchell's hopping mouse, Notomys mitchelli
- Darling Downs hopping mouse†, Notomys mordax - extinct
- Great hopping mouse†, Notomys robustus- extinct
- Prehensile-tailed rat, Pogonomys mollipilosus
- Ash-grey mouse, Pseudomys albocinereus
- Silky mouse, Pseudomys apodemoides
- Plains rat, Pseudomys australis
- Bolam's mouse, Pseudomys bolami
- Kakadu pebble-mound mouse, Pseudomys calabyi
- Western pebble-mound mouse, Pseudomys chapmani
- Little native mouse, Pseudomys delicatulus
- Desert mouse, Pseudomys desertor
- Shark Bay mouse, Pseudomys fieldi
- Smoky mouse, Pseudomys fumeus
- Blue-grey mouse†, Pseudomys glaucus - extinct
- Gould's mouse†, Pseudomys gouldi - extinct
- Eastern chestnut mouse, Pseudomys gracilicaudatus
- Sandy inland mouse, Pseudomys hermannsburgensis
- Long-tailed mouse, Pseudomys higginsi
- Central pebble-mound mouse, Pseudomys johnsoni
- Kimberley mouse, Pseudomys laborifex
- Western chestnut mouse, Pseudomys nanus
- New Holland mouse, Pseudomys novaehollandiae
- Western mouse, Pseudomys occidentalis
- Hastings River mouse, Pseudomys oralis
- Pilliga mouse, Pseudomys pilligaensis
- Eastern pebble-mound mouse, Pseudomys patrius
- Heath mouse, Pseudomys shortridgei
- Giant white-tailed rat, Uromys caudimaculatus
- Masked white-tailed rat, Uromys hadrourus
- False water rat, Xeromys myoides
- Common rock rat, Zyzomys argurus
- Arnhem Land rock rat, Zyzomys maini
- Carpentarian rock rat, Zyzomys palatalis
- Central rock rat, Zyzomys pedunculatus
- Kimberley rock rat, Zyzomys woodwardi
New "endemics" *
- Dusky rat, Rattus colletti
- Bush rat, Rattus fuscipes
- Cape York rat, Rattus leucopus
- Swamp rat, Rattus lutreolus
- Canefield rat, Rattus sordidus
- Pale field rat, Rattus tunneyi
- Long-haired rat, Rattus villosissimus
Introduced
- House mouse¤, Mus musculus
- Pacific rat¤, Rattus exulans
- Brown rat¤, Rattus norvegicus
- Black rat¤, Rattus Rattus
- Five-lined palm squirrel¤, Funambulus pennantii
- Grey squirrel¤, Sciurus carolinensis - now extinct in Australia
