Shaw Mayer's Water Rat

Shaw Mayer's Water RatShaw Mayer's water rat is recorded near streams, rivers, and lakes in the Papua New Guinea highlands. It has pale grey ventral fur and a short white tip on its tail.What does it look like?Compared with B. habbema, B. shawmayeri has longer external ears, paler slate-grey ventral fur, and a white tail tip covering no more than one quarter of the tail.How does it live?Shaw Mayer's water rat is recorded near streams, rivers, and lakes in the Papua New Guinea highlands. It has pale grey ventral fur and a short white tip on its tail.It is recorded near streams, rivers, and lakes; reports describe waterside burrows and a diet that includes aquatic insects and larvae, earthworms, and leeches.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.