White-footed rabbit rat
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White-footed rabbit-rat
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| White-footed rabbit-rat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Conilurus |
| Species: | †C. albipes
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| †Conilurus albipes (
Lichtenstein , 1829) | |
The white-footed rabbit rat (Conilurus albipes) is an
grass in the limbs of hollow eucalyptus trees. The mother carried her young attached to her teats. In a letter to John Gould, then Governor of South Australia Sir George Grey said that he removed a baby from a teat of its dead mother. The baby clung tightly to Gould's glove.[citation needed
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Sydney natives called it 'gnar-ruck' which translates as 'rabbit-biscuit'.[firestick farming, which maintained woodland, may have made the rabbit rat extinct.
Joyce and McCann, in Burke & Wills - The Scientific Legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition (CSIRO Publishing, 2012) state (p138 et seq) that the animal was seen by Beckler at camp 53 in April 1861, in the vicinity of the Bulloo River system. Additionally, the authors state that the relief party of 1862, which included Howitt, collected a specimen south of Coopers Creek.
References
- . Retrieved 12 November 2021.