The broad-toothed mouse, also called the broad-toothed rat, is a rodent with the scientific name Mastacomys fuscus. It belongs to the family Muridae and is found only in south-eastern Australia. Live specimens have been caught in the Snowfields, the Gippsland Highlands and the Otway Ranges of Victoria, and the species is also recorded in buttongrass sedgeland in western Tasmania. It prefers herbfields, grasslands and forests with few shrubs but a dense cover of sedge, grass, herbs and moss, in places where rainfall stays high. During the Pleistocene it dominated Badger Island alongside other grassland mammals, before forest-adapted fauna replaced them over the Holocene.
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It is found only in South-eastern Australia.
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Distribution and habitat
It is found only in South-eastern Australia.
In Group: Rodents And Lagomorphs, Lead
The broad-toothed mouse or broad-toothed rat (Mastacomys fuscus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
Child Taxon Of: Muridae, Lead
The broad-toothed mouse or broad-toothed rat (Mastacomys fuscus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
In Biome: Alpine, Distribution and habitat, alpine
where precipitation does not fall below 1400 mm per year in alpine areas
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