New Guinea Waterside Rat

New Guinea Waterside RatThe New Guinea Waterside Rat is a murine rodent recorded beside lakes and streams in New Guinea’s mountains. It has a greatly swollen muzzle and conspicuous teeth.What does it look like?It is a medium-sized, dark brown rat with a greatly swollen muzzle and lips and extremely large teeth.How does it live?The New Guinea Waterside Rat is a murine rodent recorded beside lakes and streams in New Guinea’s mountains. It has a greatly swollen muzzle and conspicuous teeth.This amphibious murine is recorded mainly along lakes, rivers and streams in montane New Guinea. The paper notes that most such records are above about 1,200 metres, with some lower-elevation records for Parahydromys.Keeping it safeIUCN Red List · Least Concern (LC) · Global