
%0 Journal Article
%A Redhead, T. D. 
%A McKean, J. L. 
%T A new record of the false water-rat, Xeromys myoides, from the Northern Territory of Australia.
%J Australian Mammalogy
%D 1975/01/01
%V 1
%N 4
%P 347-354
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AM75005
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AM75005 
%X Two specimens of the false water-rat, Xeromys myoides, were captured recently in the Daly River region of the Northern Territory. The last previous collection of this species in the Northern Territory was in I 903. The rats were trapped in short grass on the edges of lagoons. This habitat is threatened by buffalo, pigs and, to a lesser extent, feral and domestic cattle. It is concluded that the future of the false water-rat is endangered by such damage. X. myoides exhibits a number of adaptations for aquatic life which were not previously recognized. 
