Central rock rat

Weight

100 gsrc for Weight

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

6.91 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Herbivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

7.5 years

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

Not recorded

Young per litter or clutch

Not recorded

Active

At night (nocturnal)src for Active

Lifestyle

Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle

Conservation status

Critically Endangered (IUCN)src for Conservation status

Countries on record

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The central rock rat is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Australia

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

The central rock rat is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List: it faces an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

1. LCLeast Concern
2. NTNear Threatened
3. VUVulnerable
4. ENEndangered
5. CRCritically Endangered
6. EWExtinct in the Wild
7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Critically Endangered species.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classMammalia
4. orderRodentia
5. familyMuridae
6. genusZyzomys
7. SpeciesZyzomys pedunculatus (Waite, 1896)

Synonyms Conilurus pedunculatus

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

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@misc{central_rock_rat_2026,
  title = {Central rock rat (Zyzomys pedunculatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/central-rock-rat},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}