Biodiversity

Threatened species

Draft national recovery plan for the water mouse (false water rat) Xeromys myoides

The State of Queensland, Department of the Environment and Resource Management, 2009

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Summary

The water mouse Xeromys myoides (false water rat) Thomas 1889 is a small native rodent recorded from coastal saltmarsh including samphire shrublands, saline reed-beds and saline grasslands, mangrove and coastal freshwater wetlands.

The species is listed as ‘Vulnerable’ under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) and the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NC Act) (listed as false water rat). In the Northern Territory X. myoides is listed as a threatened species under the Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 2000 (TPWC Act) with a conservation status of ‘data deficient’. The species is recorded on Appendix I of CITES1. Currently, the common name used is water mouse and for the purposes of this report, X. myoides will be referred to as the water mouse.

Open for public comment

You are invited to comment on this draft recovery plan in accordance with the provisions of section 275 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

The public comment period closes 4 January 2010.

If you wish to comment on a draft recovery plan, please send your comments, quoting the title of the plan, to:

Email: recoveryplans@environment.gov.au

Mail:
Director
Recovery, Planning and Implementation Section
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
GPO Box 787
Canberra ACT 2601

Fax: 02 6274 1921

Draft recovery plans are available in hard copy from the Department's Community Information Unit

See also

Cover page of recovery plan

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