Masked white-tailed rat

The masked white-tailed rat (Uromys hadrourus), also called the Thornton Peak uromys, is a rodent of the family Muridae that is endemic to the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland, Australia. Descriptive English names for it include Masked White-tailed Rat and Thornton Peak Uromys. In the 1990s there was a push to replace such descriptive names with indigenous Australian ones, and in 1995 the Australian Nature Conservation Agency published recommendations for the common names of rodents. It found no indigenous name specific to this species and so recommended Kuku, the Kuku-Yalanki word for any rat, although the recommendation was not binding and its uptake remained uncertain.