Brush-tailed Rabbit Rat

Order Rodentia; Family Muridae; Scientific name: Conilurus penicillatus; Common name: Brush-tailed Rabbit-rat – Distribution in Australia: from north-western Kimberley in Western Australia through Top End of the Northern Territory to some offshore islands including Bentinck Isl in the Gulf of Carpentaria in north-western Queensland - Also in southern New Guinea.