Forrest’s leggadina is a small rodent of arid Australia. It has a short tail, a broad blunt muzzle, sandy-gray upper fur, and a white underside.
Its tail is shorter than the head-and-body length. The coarse upper fur is gray or sandy, the underside is white, and the muzzle is broad and blunt.
It is nocturnal and omnivorous, eating seeds, green plant material, and arthropods. Records include dry plains, low chenopod shrubland, and tussock grassland.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.