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.

Muridae

 * 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


 * 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 sp. - 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

Muridae

 * 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

Muridae

 * House Mouse¤, Mus musculus
 * Pacific Rat¤, Rattus exulans
 * Brown Rat¤, Rattus norvegicus
 * Black Rat¤, Rattus rattus

Sciuridae

 * Five-lined Palm Squirrel¤, Funambulus pennantii
 * Grey Squirrel¤, Sciurus carolinensis - extinct in Australia