The ricefield rat uses rice paddies and grasslands in Southeast Asia and eats both plant and animal foods.
Its back is grizzled yellow-brown and black; the middle of the belly is grayish, the flanks are lighter, and the tail is uniformly medium brown.
It uses cultivated areas such as rice paddies and grasslands, nesting in soil burrows or under rocks, and eats insects, seeds, vegetables, and fruit.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.